The Roman Empire On Crack. A Brilliant Comparison Between Vietnam And Iraq

As he's done with so much else, he also linked the Vietnam War by an act of verbal ju-jitsu to al-Qaeda and the attacks of September 11, 2001. September 11, too, turned out to be part of the "price" we'd paid for succumbing to "the allure of retreat" and withdrawing way back when. ("In an interview with a Pakistani newspaper after the 9/11 attacks," intoned the president, "Osama bin Laden declared that 'the American people had risen against their government's war in Vietnam. And they must do the same today'.") Whatever brief respite his August embrace of Vietnam may have given him in the polls, it involved a larger concession on the administration's part. Like its predecessors, the Bush administration and its neo-con supporters simply couldn't kick the "Vietnam syndrome" - much as they struggled to do so - any more than a moth could avoid the flame. Now, they found themselves locked in a desperate, hopeless attempt to use Vietnam to recapture the hearts and minds of the American people. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II06Ak05.html

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