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Got to let go. It’s over.
Consuming RedBull to swallow Allegra-D while under the influence of insomnia is hazardous to one’s health. particularly within about half-an-hour of such action.
Professor Joanna invited Emerson College‘s freshmen Honors classes to a screening of The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara on Thursday night. This Errol Morris documentary digs into the mind of Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. McNamara has always played a key villain role in my U.S. history classes’ study of the Vietnam War. Through telling introspection, McNamara describes his struggle to pursue the diplomatic and military plans and that he and President Kennedy developed before President Kennedy’s assassination.
If President George W. Bush is a war mongerer, he pales in comparison to Democratic President Lyndon Johnson’s escalation and missteps in Vietnam. According to McNamara, President Johnson disagreed with President Kennedy’s strategy for Vietnam and subsequently chose a radically different, and ultimately fateful, approach. McNamara cowardly submitted to and executed President Johnson’s orders against his own judgment. What follows in the documentary are eleven lessons McNamara learned from Vietnam War at the price of 211,529 casualties, $111-billion, and immeasurable damage to the ideals and reputation of the United States.
Most shocking to me was McNamara’s conversation with a high-ranking Vietnamese official many years after the Vietnam War where he realized that even the President of the United States and his Cabinet did not understand that the Communists in Vietnam were fighting for state independence, not for alignment with China and other Communist nations. The killing was in vain. The United States of American should have aligned itself with the Vietnamese Communist revolutionists to have an ally against the larger Communist states in the region. Both sides were really fighting against the same enemy, only we were blinded by paranoia. Fog of War is the most disruptive account of the Vietnam War I have seen.
*Statistical Summary America’s Major Wars
What is President Bush thinking?!
Fox News: Bush Backs Amendment Barring Gay Marriage
Log Cabin Republicans Criticize President Bush’s Support for Anti-Family Constitutional Amendment, as do I
Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat.
The LiveWire is back and better than ever! Major congrats to Spirit FM and Mark Lamb. I send my wishes for many more years of amazing ministry; may it spread the love of Jesus Christ to the teens in Virginia and West Virginia now as it first did to me seven years ago.
Spinnin Around by Jump 5
I spent the night in 6 Arlington and awoke with a seemingly humorous inability to stand or walk without the assistance of a stable object. My fellow pedestrians on Beacon Street probably thought me drunk, though no alcohol contributed to my condition. An hour passed and I needed to leave for class, but I barely survived showering and questioned my ability to walk across campus. Two hours in Student Health Services, a few Allegra D, and a skipped class later, the fluid in my ears has slightly subsided. I feel perfectly fine, just dizzy. Please, make the room stop spinning…
Best Valentine’s Day. ever.
I Fought the Law by Green Day
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