HIST 115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Gulf War, George P. Shultz, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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For several years each new us military intervention has been held up to the precedent of vietnam. Secretary of state george shultz said in 1985 that vietnam was an appropriate. "analogy" to the central american administration policy of reagan: "our goals in central america are similar to those in vietnam: Widened soviet influence, this time close to our very borders. "throughout the months that president bush built up u. s. forces in the persian gulf, he tried to convince the interested public that the war against iraq was like that. In 1984 he created the education center for social studies to promote more and better teaching of the vietnam war, its lessons and legacies. The vietnam war is a powerful vehicle teaching those analytical skills young people need to become informed citizens. It is a massive, dramatic and dynamic case with very different viewpoints, pivoting on multiple critical decisions based on conflicting facts.
