| I don't see the similarities because the situation is much more different from Vietnam. In Vietnam we were fighting on the behalf of a client state against both highly organized guerillas and an enemy state. In Iraq we're not fighting on the behalf of anyone but ourselves, and the enemy is not a state or a guerilla army but a shady group of various political factions that oppose US presence. With this in mind our occupation of Iraq sounds less like Vietnam and more like the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered
Martin Luther King Jr. |