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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | June 14, 1999 issue

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The article presents a response related to an essay "The Liberals' Folly," that appeared in the previous issue of the journal. "Quagmire," "knee-deep in the Big Muddy"-are the colloquial expressions designed to exculpate the United States from its crimes in Vietnam and Cambodia. They suggest, rather than an aggressor, a self-pitying superpower becoming "bogged down" by its own clumsiness. The Vietnam was in many ways "a liberals' war," if one takes the word "liberal" to mean the Democratic Party establishment.

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POLITICAL science; WAR; LIBERALISM; POLITICAL parties; VIETNAM; UNITED States
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