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You're preaching to the choir on this one, on your general points. Nearly everything you say is correct about the *history* of what actually occurred in Vietnam (actually, I just said that to stroke your ego and make this go easier; it's clear that you know very little about the history of the Vietnam War, or the context of the wars America engaged in before it. Sorry).
But this is what you don't grasp: the same "ohhhh, puhhleeze--there's no comparing the two!!!" attitude you post with is the same thing many of us heard when comparing the "die-for-a-tie" Korean conflict with the then-current activities going on in Southeast Asia, circa 1969.
Well...you fellow's are back! And as assertive and arrogant as ever! This time it's not the Yalu River or Tet you're lecturing us about--it's Fallujah, Iraq. And it's the same old "go-along-to-get-along" crap; "we've got to let the enemy win *here*, in this particular place, because the [World Community; the Soviets; the Arab World; etc., and etc., fill-in-the-appropriate-blank] might be offended, and we can't have that!"
Obfuscation and puling cowardice, plain and simple. Given your tatterdemalion standards of how to wage war, Hitler & Tojo's spirit would live on today in Germany and Japan, and the Nazis would split the world with the Imperial Japanese Empire, given your hair-splitting "can't-we-all-just-let-the-enemy-win-just-this-one-victory?" attitude. As I stated previously, I'VE HEARD YOUR PECULIAR BRAND OF GARBAGE BEFORE. Please spare me any more of *that* kind of special pleading about what a geopolitical genius you are regarding this matter. It simply doesn't wash with those of us who've seen it all before.