[dirtboy]

But if the Sunni insurgency tears Iraq apart in chaos and civil war, leading to a U.S. withdrawal, or a second Vietnam, Bush’s fate is sealed.

Pat, I would hope you would resist the dark side and avoid the Vietnam mentality so prevalent on the left.

[T.L.Sink]

Buchanan is an isolationist and anti-Semite and therefore
sees any foreign involvement in Iraq as part of the Viet Nam syndrome. At this point his extremism comes close to
Ted Kennedy and his Viet Nam "quagmire" statements. There
is absolutely NO historical parallel between Iraq and Viet
Nam. We were in VietNam for over a decade and lost 58,000
troops. The causes and nature of the two conflicts were
totally different. The VietNam syndrome is a quagmire that
both Buchanan and the Left are caught in. Buchanan is not
a paleoconservative. He is paleoLITHIC.