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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Humanities West Presents Lessons Unlearned: The 50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War, Part II
Description: There clearly are lessons that we have learned from the Vietnam War that we have applied well to other situations, but there are also lessons that we think we have learned that are far less clear, and could lead to similar outcomes if we are not careful.
The Vietnam War certainly cast a pall over America, but much more so over all of Southeast Asia. Back then the enemy was seen as Communism. Now the enemy has transformed into various political movements along the far end of the authoritarian spectrum―whose understandable but deceptive attractiveness during moments of...