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How lessons of Vietnam can be applied to Afghanistan

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Tags: Vietnam, Afghanistan, McGeorge Bundy, JFK, escalation, LBJ

Good afternoon,

Welcome to WMNF ‘S Radioactivity…I'm Robert Lorei. Coming up: a new book says President John Kennedy was committed to stopping an escalation of combat troops in Vietnam -- and the implications that this new information has for incoming President Barack Obama and the calls for a troop increase in Afghanistan.

But first some listener comments about last week’s program on reforming health care in the U.S.

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