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.
I would disagree on one level. We lost Vietnam not militarily but politically, due to some deranged leftists. And many of those same leftists are trying to accomplish the same ending with Iraq. The jury is still out as to whether they will succeed.