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April 25th, 2024

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Obama echoes LBJ on Vietnam

The more things change, the more they stay the same. President Obama's justifications for an indefinite global war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) echo the reasons elaborated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in April and July of 1965 for the Vietnam War - all of which proved wrong or wrongheaded. The Vietnam…

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Bruce Fein, who served as associate deputy attorney general and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan, is president of the law firm Bruce Fein & Associates Inc. He also is the author of "American Empire Before the Fall and Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy."

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