Like Vietnam we are doomed to failure in Iraq.
In Vietnam we took great care to avoid a larger war with the Chinese and the Russians and here we are reluctant to engage Islam.
We had and still have the military capabilities just not the political capabilities.
Read: In Retrospect by Robert McNamara
Like Vietnam we are doomed to failure in Iraq. In Vietnam we took great care to avoid a larger war with the Chinese and the Russians and here we are reluctant to engage Islam. No, In Vietnam, we -- Johnson and Nixon -- took great care to please the liberal media.
In Iraq, we take great care not to turn 1,000 bad guys hiding in a city who want to fight us into an entire city of 200,000 who want to fight us.
Our chances of success with this approach are better than if we take the approach of leveling a city with 200,000 people in it.