a Just War by Howard Zinn I believe two moral judgments can be made about the present "war": The September 11 attack constitutes a crime against humanity and cannot be justified‚ and the bombing of Afghanistan is also a crime‚ which cannot be justified. And yet‚ voices across the political spectrum‚ including many on the left‚ have described this as a "just war." One longtime advocate of peace‚ Richard Falk‚ wrote in The Nation that this is "the first truly just war since World War II." Robert
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two-year war on drugs‚ saying that the United States’ approach in the drug war has been ineffective (Debussman). Although the term‚ “war on drugs‚” was originally coined by President Richard Nixon in 1971‚ it wasn’t until Ronald Reagan announced that “drugs were menacing society” that it became a major policy goal to stop widespread use. Following Reagan’s promises to fight for drug-free schools and workplaces‚ the United States boosted its efforts in its most recent declaration of war. Thirty years
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Names for the war Further information: Terminology of the Vietnam War Various names have been applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English. It has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina‚ this particular conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others.[56] In Vietnamese‚ the war is generally known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (Resistance War Against America)
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Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: What’s the Mystery? Abstract Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy has been characterized by its distinguishable behavior that meets the criteria of fictitious disorder according to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ fourth edition‚ text revision (DSM-IV-TR) (2000). Munchausen Syndrome affects many people that unconsciously expose themselves and their children to unnecessary abuse and maltreatment in attempts to gain attention by medical professionals
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The war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq differ in many ways such as; the reason for war‚ US support‚ the cost‚ number of deaths‚ and the time and place. In this essay I am going to compare the Vietnam War with the war in Iraq describing three ways in which the war in Vietnam differs from the war in Iraq. Three ways the two wars differ are the reason for war‚ number of deaths‚ and the cost. The Vietnam War was a war over communism that started in 1950‚ when Ho Chi Minh‚ the national leader of
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The Cold War‚ often dated from 1947 to 1991‚ was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc‚ dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies‚ and powers in the Eastern Bloc‚ dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany‚ leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. A neutral faction arose with the
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The Coldest of Wars The exact definition of a cold war is a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats‚ propaganda and other measures short of open warfare‚ in particular. Many historians believe that the Cold War officially started at the end of World War 2 but others will argue that it began with the October Revolution in Russia in 1917.With many primary sources like‚ The Marshall Plan‚ The George Kennan’s famous long telegram‚ the Nonproliferation Treaty‚ the Cuban
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *BRIEF HISTORY OF TAEKWONDO* Early Koreans developed unique martial art forms for unarmed self defense to complement their skills with weapons. The first recorded evidence of what was to become modern Tae Kwon Do is found about two thousand years ago in Korean history. A mural painting from the Koguryu kingdom (37 B.C to 66 A.D.) was found in a tomb believed to have been built sometime during the
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Is the war on terror a war that can be won? ‘Less than 12 hours after the 9/11 attacks‚ George W. Bush pro- claimed the start of a global war on terror. Ever since‚ there has been a vigorous debate about how to win it.’1 However more than 12 years on there is still no indication of how close it is to being won and whether it can actually be won. In fact‚ many such as Jonathan Steele (journalist and international affairs author) suggests it is ‘A war that can never be won.’2 However‚ before we
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The Trojan War is comparable to the Vietnam War mainly because the allies within each of the wars‚ the strategies used to conduct surprise attacks‚ and the length of each of the wars. Even though the Trojan War and the Vietnam War occurred during time periods‚ both wars lasted for over five years. The reasons for starting the Vietnam War are different from the reasons for starting the Trojan War. The catalyst of the Trojan War was Paris’ embezzlement of Helen from Sparta‚ while the catalysts of
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