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Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

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The Vietnam Syndrome: A Pathology of American Progressivism

Vietnam syndrome is a way of naming this anti-war politics that really grew into a general by the late 70s. It's not, right, the opposition to the war is not a coherent political position. It's a pathology that was born amongst the left in American society. So, basically, you have within the veteran community a different community that is now trying to re-appropriate their own war as also a good war and a valiant war. And a war that they are owed, right, they are owed honor, which they never, which theynever received.

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