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A clash is looming between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on including rape in a coming directive.

The great awakenings and the Evangelical empire -- Liberals and conservatives in the Post-Civil War North -- The fundamentalist-modernist conflict -- The separatists -- Billy Graham and modern evangelicalism -- Pentecostals and Southern Baptists -- Evangelicals in the sixties -- The fundamentalist uprising in the South -- Jerry Falwell and he moral majority -- Reagan and the South turns Republican -- The Evangelical thinkers -- Pat Robertson : politics and charismatic prophecies -- The Christian coalition and the Republican Party -- The Christian right and George W. Bush -- New Evangelicals -- The transformation of the Christian right

In the wake of the Tet offensive, on March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson announced a partial halt to the bombing of North Vietnam, initiated peace talks with Hanoi, and declared he would not run for a second term. In that election year, Richard Nixon called for "peace with honor" and defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who could not attack Johnson for waging what had become a hugely unpopular war. Many Americans assumed that peace would come in short order. But, though the peace talks had begun, fighting in Vietnam continued for another seven years. In those years, Nixon gradually withdrew American troops from Vietnam but expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos, and with extensive bombing campaigns wreaked more destruction on the Indochinese than had been visited upon them in all the preceding years of war. More than twenty thousand American troops died, and upheavals in the United States tore the country apart, creating divisions that remain with us today.

"Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run," the gambler says in a popular song. But in the aftermath of imperialism and war, walking away is not so simple. Dissent's editors asked several scholars and writers to look at British, French, and American exit Strategies- and to pay special attention to the difficulties, above all, the need to protect friends and collaborators and to minimize violence. In these pages, the focus is on each particular case-the American colonies, the Philippines, India, Korea, Algeria, and Vietnam-but we are obviously looking toward an American withdrawal from Iraq. We will write about that in the Spring Dissent. Adapted from the source document.