Different situation entirely. Vietnam was an attempt to prop up a post-colonial government nobody wanted. Iraq’s current woes are, first of all, the result of destroying a functioning (if corrupt) government that was in place and, second, a crisis of a non-representative minority force that the mass of Iraqi people do not support. .I think we need to let the chips fall, I don’t want to see us sacrifice more of our young people for neocon dreams, but the comparison doesn’t hold. This is not your grandfather’s war.
Different situation entirely. Vietnam was an attempt to prop up a post-colonial government nobody wanted. Iraq’s current woes are, first of all, the result of destroying a functioning (if corrupt) government that was in place and, second, a crisis of a non-representative minority force that the mass of Iraqi people do not support. .I think we need to let the chips fall, I don’t want to see us sacrifice more of our young people for neocon dreams, but the comparison doesn’t hold. This is not your grandfather’s war.