"Tunnel Vision: Watching Iraq, and Seeing Vietnam"
Highlights both the similarities and differences between Iraq and Vietnam. Quite insightful.
Excerpt:
"'Quagmire,' 'attrition,' 'credibility gap,' 'Iraqification' — a listener to the debate over the situation in Iraq might think that it truly is Vietnam all over again..."
"But Iraq is not Vietnam, and 2003 is not 1975 or 1968. Saddam Hussein was driven out of power and his regime collapsed last spring. There is no independent sanctuary named 'North Iraq' for his Baath Party henchmen to fight from, no Soviet Union to keep them supplied with arms and fuel..."
Excerpt:
"'Quagmire,' 'attrition,' 'credibility gap,' 'Iraqification' — a listener to the debate over the situation in Iraq might think that it truly is Vietnam all over again..."
"But Iraq is not Vietnam, and 2003 is not 1975 or 1968. Saddam Hussein was driven out of power and his regime collapsed last spring. There is no independent sanctuary named 'North Iraq' for his Baath Party henchmen to fight from, no Soviet Union to keep them supplied with arms and fuel..."
// 11/09/2003 
