{"id":1195,"date":"2004-04-16T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T18:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-is-a-born-again-nixon\/"},"modified":"2004-04-16T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T18:42:47","slug":"bush-is-a-born-again-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-is-a-born-again-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush is a Born-again Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/16\/opinion\/16KRUG.html?th\">The Vietnam Analogy<\/a> By PAUL KRUGMAN, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam shook the nation&#8217;s confidence not just because we lost, but <b>because our leaders didn&#8217;t tell us the truth<\/b>. Last September Gen. Anthony Zinni spoke of &#8221;Vietnam, where we heard the garbage and the lies,&#8221; and asked his audience of military officers, &#8221;Is it happening again?&#8221; Sure enough, the parallels are proliferating. Gulf of Tonkin attack, meet nonexistent W.M.D. and Al Qaeda links. &#8221;Hearts and minds,&#8221; meet &#8221;welcome us as liberators.&#8221; &#8221;Light at the end of the tunnel,&#8221;  meet &#8221;turned the corner.&#8221; Vietnamization, meet the new Iraqi Army. &#8230; Remember the domino theory?<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s one more parallel: <b>Nixonian politics is back<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>What we remember now is Watergate. But equally serious were <b>Nixon&#8217;s efforts to suppress dissent<\/b>, like the &#8221;Tell It to Hanoi&#8221; rallies, where critics of the Vietnam War were accused of undermining the soldiers and encouraging the enemy. On Tuesday <b>George Bush did a meta-Nixon<\/b>: he declared that anyone who draws analogies between Iraq and Vietnam undermines the soldiers and encourages the enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vietnam Analogy By PAUL KRUGMAN, NYTimes Vietnam shook the nation&#8217;s confidence not just because we lost, but because our leaders didn&#8217;t tell us the truth. Last September Gen. Anthony Zinni spoke of &#8221;Vietnam, where we heard the garbage and the lies,&#8221; and asked his audience of military officers, &#8221;Is it happening again?&#8221; Sure enough, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-is-a-born-again-nixon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush is a Born-again Nixon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}