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Iraq will be harder than Vietnam, author says
Iraq will be harder than Vietnam, author says
(EXCERPT) By Chris Wetterich STAFF WRITER The war in Iraq has parallels to the Vietnam War and presents more difficult challenges, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist David Halberstam told a University of Charleston audience Thursday. “This is going to be harder than Vietnam,” said Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the Vietnam War’s early days for The New York Times. “We have bitten off a lot more than we were aware of. I think the president is aware of that now.” Halberstam, who was invited to lecture by the West Virginia Humanities Council, said the factor that makes Iraq harder is that the United States could have left Vietnam at any time. In Iraq, “we are constrained by people who could follow us home,” he said, referring to the terrorists who have attacked the United States. He had doubts about going to war in the first place, saying the Bush administration moved too quickly without enough international support, something that has now come back to haunt the United States. “These are all things I learned in Vietnam,” Halberstam said, saying that voices in the administra... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 24 Oct 2003, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://wvgazette.com/section/News/Today/2003102336 --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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