The Reticulator » Foreign relations http://www.reticulator.com Everything is connected to everything Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:35:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Graduated escalation http://www.reticulator.com/2009/11/25/graduated-escalation/ http://www.reticulator.com/2009/11/25/graduated-escalation/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:08:11 +0000 Reticulator http://www.reticulator.com/2009/11/25/graduated-escalation/ Someone finally points out that Barak Obama’s decision-making re Afghanistan is coming to resemble Lyndon Johnson’s in Vietnam. Ben Shapiro mentions it in passing. Good. Saves me the trouble of saying the words “gradual escalation.”

(I’m not saying nobody else has pointed it out. I’d think it would be obvious to anyone who lived through the 1960s. But Shapiro’s is the first mention that I’ve seen.)

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