I found the table below in the article That was Diem; This is Now below on this page thanks to Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s “Sidelights” list on Making Light. Your reaction to it will vary depending on your opinion of the current U.S. administration. Feel free to fire away in the comments.
| THEN | NOW |
|---|---|
| Communist revolution in China | 9-11 |
| Red Scare | Fifth Column |
| China Lobby | Neo-Cons |
| Taiwan/Republic of China | Israel |
| International Communism | Axis of Evil |
| None Dare Call It Treason | Treason |
| Red Channels | David Horowitz |
| John Foster Dulles | Dick Cheney |
| Liberation roll-back | One Percent Doctrine |
| Hungary, 1956 | Marsh Arabs |
| Domino Theory | Terrorist havens |
| North Vietnam | Iran |
| Cardinal Spellman | Israel Lobby |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Ahmed Chalabi |
| Walt Whitman Rostow | Paul Wolfowitz |
| Quemoy and Matsu | Kuwait |
| Gulf of Tonkin | WMDs |
| Catholics and Buddhists | Sunni and Shi’ites |
| Robert McNamera | Donald Rumsfeld |
| Association of Southeast Asian Nations | Coalition of the Willing |
| Rolling Thunder | Shock and Awe |
| Advisers | Embedded Trainers |
| Vietnamization | “We’ll stand down when they stand up” |
| Fact-finding missions | Iraq Study Group |
| Joseph McCarthy | Tom DeLay |
| Hubert Humphrey | Hillary Clinton |
| Barry Goldwater | John McCain |
| George McGovern | John Edwards |
| Bobby Kennedy | Barack Obama |
| Walter Winchell | Rush Limbaugh |
| Joe Pyne | Bill O’Reilly |
| Commies | Secular progressives |
| Edward R. Murrow | Keith Olberman |
| I.F. Stone | Josh Marshall |
| Whittaker Chambers | Christopher Hitchens |
| Joseph Buttinger | Peter Beinart |
| Dan Rather (covering Nixon) | David Gregory |
| I Led Three Lives | Sleeper Cell |
| Al Capp | Mallard Fillmore |
| Martin Peretz | Martin Peretz |
| Lyndon Johnson, peace candidate of 1964 | ? |
One reply on “"The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce"”
There’s almost no difference except I guess our President got Congress’ permission to go to war then? A failed idea for war then and now and its bankrupting America this time. The Peace candidate BTW is Ron Paul. Get us out Ron!