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  • This view is being articulated not only by Kissinger and other Nixon-era officials but a younger cadre of military officers, most notably Lt. Colonel Louis Sorley in his book A Better War -- which has been, according to the Wall Street Journal, "recommended in multiple lists put out by military officers, including a former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, who passed it out to his subordinates."

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

  • Sorley himself quotes General Creighton Abrams, the head of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, as saying on this question of the B-52s and the tac air 'it's very clear to me that this (the Thieu) government would now have fallen, and this country would now be gone, and we wouldn't be meeting here today, if it hadn't been for the (U.S.)

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

  • This view is being articulated not only by Kissinger and other Nixon-era officials but a younger cadre of military officers, most notably Lt. Colonel Louis Sorley in his book A Better War -- which has been, according to the Wall Street Journal, "recommended in multiple lists put out by military officers, including a former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, who passed it out to his subordinates."

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

  • Newsweek, interviewing Sorley, reported that in 1974, breaking Nixon's promises of continued support to Saigon, the U.S.

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

  • Newsweek, interviewing Sorley, reported that in 1974, breaking Nixon's promises of continued support to Saigon, the U.S.

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

  • I suspect that Spacesick and Sorley aren't as old as the paperbacks they're using as models.

    Cover Designs, Shopping, and False Nostalgia 2009

  • I suspect that Spacesick and Sorley aren't as old as the paperbacks they're using as models.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Various venuesStAnza 2011, St Andrews, Wed to 20 MarThe centenary of Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean marked, plus art, film, music and kids' events, plus plenty of poetry.

    This week's new events 2011

  • The poet Wilfred Owen was little known before his death one week before the Armistice, but the short, wasted lives of men like him and fellow war poets Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley and Isaac Rosenberg embody what one of Owen's poems called the "Futility" of the war.

    Their Name Still Liveth Joanna Scutts 2011

  • Sorley himself quotes General Creighton Abrams, the head of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, as saying on this question of the B-52s and the tac air 'it's very clear to me that this (the Thieu) government would now have fallen, and this country would now be gone, and we wouldn't be meeting here today, if it hadn't been for the (U.S.)

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

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