Big Think

Doug Newman on May 15, 2008, 8:15 AM

While Mr. Emanuel is correct in forecasting decades of foreign relation problems due to American citizens' lemming like agreement on attacking Iraq, he neglects an important point. The US engaged in a similar war of aggression a generation ago yet Americans went out of their way to avoid learning the plain lessons. There is no evidence that Americans will (this time) learn the lessons they avoided in losing the Vietnam war.

Doug Newman on May 15, 2008, 12:15 PM

While Mr. Emanuel is correct in forecasting decades of foreign relation problems due to American citizens’ lemming like agreement on attacking Iraq, he neglects an important point. The US engaged in a similar war of aggression a generation ago yet Americans went out of their way to avoid learning the plain lessons. There is no evidence that Americans will (this time) learn the lessons they avoided in losing the Vietnam war.

Jenni Oglethorpe on January 5, 2009, 4:54 PM

I’m not buying it at all. She sounds like one of those intellectuals who makes things up to sell books and articles, but with no evidence or facts. “American is an addictive culture”?? More than other cultures? I doubt it. She also buys into the Blue-Red divide myth. I guess media people really do believe there is a division between the blue and red states, that we live in two Americas. Nobody with their eyes open thinks this.