Tom Hayden - Writings for a Democratic Society (2008)

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Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.

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Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

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Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

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Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

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