Kathleen Frydl - Is Iraq Another Vietnam?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/30/Dr__Kathleen_Frydl_Echoes_of_the_60s

UC-Berkeley Professor of History Kathleen Frydl draws parallels between the Vietnam War and the current war in Iraq.

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Kathleen Frydl discusses Echoes of the 60s.

Are we now living in an era that echoes the 1960s? Comparisons between the wars in Iraq and Vietnam have become commonplace rhetorical devices in political campaigns, newspaper columns, and stand-up comedy routines. These comparisons can be illustrative, illuminating, and even funny, but are they apt?

In conversation with Grace Cathedral's Dean, Alan Jones, U.C. Berkeley professor of history Kathleen Frydl will discuss the cultural features - the rise of the mass media, fluctuations in American knowledge and public opinion, the level of public trust in government - of the Vietnam Era against the backdrop of the intervening 40 years and today's zeitgeist.

Kathleen Frydl's field is the U.S. since 1607, with special emphasis on the 20th century. Thus far her research has focused on political history and, within that subfield, she has maintained a particular interest in institutions. She lectures survey courses on recent U.S. history, political history from the Gilded Age, and (with her colleague Peter Zinoman) on the Vietnam War.

Her forthcoming book, The GI Bill, will be published by Cambridge University Press - Grace Cathedral

Dr. Kathleen Frydl is an Assistant Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley. Kathleen Frydl's field is the U.S. since 1607, with special emphasis on the 20th century. Thus far her research has focused on political history and, within that subfield, she has maintained a particular interest in institutions. She lectures survey courses on recent U.S. history, political history from the Gilded Age, and (with her colleague Peter Zinoman) on the Vietnam War.

Her forthcoming book, The GI Bill, will be published by Cambridge University Press.

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[Rahab111222]

A retreat of the United States from Vietnam would be a communist victory of massive proportions

...It would not bring peace, it would lead to more war.

-Richard Nixon

Any sign to leave before the job is done... s-simply emboldens terrorists. ... Leaving before the job is done would be a disaster.

-George W. Bush

[gooddarkjedi]

people of vietnam where little more organaised then iraq insurges but the same result. but while the north vietnam army suported the people of vietnam the terrorists are killing their own people. but in the end the terrorists get the hearts in their side bechose when you ask someone."do you fight the invaider or your own people" then people say "i fight those invaders that bombed by house and family".

[nbaolam]

She right , they were wars of choice.....but so was Germany.

[RPenta]

Until a President tries to recycle the "rally round the flag and the boys" theme coupled with the "enemy of the time" fear mongering and gets howled out of the White House by the American people we are doomed to wars without end.

That is why he who controls the present, controls the past, he who controls the past, controls the future--you should know that Chris Hitchens, you war mongering neo-con turncoat redcoat.

[rollotwomassey]

She surprisingly makes a good point about the enemy's strategy at about 1:50. However, I am surprised that a professor of history would recycle the same old Gulf of Tonkin canard. That "event" was actually two events- the first was certainly an NVA attack upon the US Navy while the second incident appears not to have been.

[Incipidone]

If youre making a comment on my comment then you have a valid point, but all i said was that though my professor was liberal she presented other points of view as well. You make a good point about truth being left out of the bias menu, its true for a voter either being a democrat or a republican, they have to vote one way or the other which in turn makes them ill-informed voter. Winston Churchill once said "The Best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter."

[endtimesprophet]

There's no dif. between, liberal and conservative,Mcain, or Obama? Both have CFR and trilaterals as advisors w/Brezynski, the author of NSM to undermine black political organization,send drugs to inner cities & inhibit black progress, is the main foreign relations advisor to Obama. Even KF from berkley is for sale.I am not liberal or conservative, cus in this game of geo-politics people think as a result of being fed from a list of approved choices, where truth isn't on the menu.

[Incipidone]

you know this woman, Professor Frydl, was my professor for a history class. Contrary to what you're claiming she actually presented all the different perspectives on different subjects, whether it was conservative or liberal. She has a well of knowledge that you cant even compare to so i can't see any kind of merit in your opinion, which critiques her. An example would be when she presented the different schools of thought as to who was at fault in the cold war, not just the liberal view.

[endtimesprophet]

I'm against the Iraq war, but these professors and leftist hippies communists, are all so sappy. Peace man! The issue is that it serves the purpose of the military industrial complex. It doesn't make the world safer.