Must be 5 pages minimum Due: Wednesday May 6, 2020
Focus on the following set of points: You have ample leeway to choose your material, but within the parameters of these points. Address all 5 points!
EXAMINE THE VARIOUS CHALLENGES TO WILLSONS CONSERVATIVE COLD WAR CONSCIOUSNESS before, during and after his tour in Viet Nam, with emphasis on his Mai Li experience? Examine Willsons patriotic views giving way to new viewpoints.
WILLSON ON THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING AND KNOWING HISTORY
Examine Willsons analysis of Americans general lack of knowledge of history.
In this vein, examine Willsons analysis and observations on American exceptionalism.
WILLSON ON THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE – AWOL
Examine the basic blueprint of AWOL as laid out in George F. Kennans 1948 internal memo.
AWOLs footprint on the Earth?
Again, in this vein, examine Willsons analysis and observations on American exceptionalism.
WILLSON AND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION
Discuss Willsons examination of US intervention in Nicaragua.
Lessons of Nicaragua to Willson: Any links between Willsons Viet Nam and Mai Li experience and those in Nicaragua? Lessons in human dignity?
Nicaragua, the 1986 Veterans Fast for Life, September 1, 1987, at Concord Naval Weapons Depot, and the Nuremburg Principles?
Nicaragua and the Iran-Contra scandal?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF WILLSON WALKING ON THIRD WORLD LEGS? How does this phrase sum up the theme of this book?