Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> Matt Grimaldi wrote:
> >
> >>> Any chance of that? I think the anti-military
> >>> meme is so strong that he would have no votes.
> >
> > You either have bad information or the wrong meme-set,
> > Alberto. A military take-over of the government,
> > if that's what you were thinking of, would not be
> > at all popular, but Powell being ex-military would
> > actually help him.
> >
> Hmmm... I imagined that this Vietnam-scared generation
> wouldn't have this admiration for the militaries that
> the previous generations had.
The thing is, Colin Powell was a key player in the butt-kicking Gulf War
in 1991. That war was a lot shorter than its detractors predicted at
the beginning, and that was declared to be a decisive victory. That
Gulf War was what the US needed to get over their fear of another
Vietnam.
At least, that's how I was reading the general opinion climate in the
early 1990s.
(The sending of US troops to the Balkans resurrected the Vietnam specter
to some degree, but that's not being remembered as sharply as the Gulf
War now. At least, that's how I'm reading it now.)
Julia
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