[RLK]

The growing violence in Iraq and America's apparent inability to deal with it are eroding public support in the United States for the occupation. A poll released yesterday suggests support for war has plunged since spring, when Saddam Hussein and his regime were ousted.

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It's a repeat or close parallel to what happened in Viet Nam. We control the parade grounds and our propaganda machine, but we don't have control of the enemy or the countryside. We don't even admit the enemy is Islam.

[WHBates]

We know it but just don't broadcast it. Get with the program.

[walden]

Yeah, I see what you mean. Three or four hundred dead in Iraq is just exactly like 58,000 dead in Vietnam, taking the capital city of Baghdad in 3 weeks is just exactly like never taking the capital of N. Vietnam, a war that goes on for a few weeks with six months of reconstruction so far, mopping up dead-enders-- yup, that's just exactly like what, 12 years in Vietnam, with several of those years losing hundreds of Americans a week.

Amazing that I never saw all of the obvious parallels before. Thanks for your tremendous insight!