Professor Parry-Giles says:
"As a war rages on, a country's leaders are often called upon to issue a different kind of war address, one that combines the typical justification for war with a sense of wartime maintenance, seeking to sustain the war effort when multiple obstacles to victory have arisen.
Curiously, President Bush's answer resembles the Nixon Doctrine and his move toward Vietnamization. Such similarities on training the people of a country to fight their own war or to secure their own nation, failed as a wartime strategy for Richard Nixon and had limited rhetorical appeal domestically. The rearticulation of a similar exit strategy only furthers the comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam, undermining administrative attempts to revive U.S. support for this difficult war."
Shawn Parry-Giles is an associate professor in the Communication Department at Maryland and is the director of the Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership. She is an expert on U.S. Political Communication, U.S. War Discourse and Wartime Propaganda.
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