Iraq isn't Vietnam

Washington Times ^ | Friday, July 25, 2003 | By Austin Bay

[JohnHuang2]

Iraq isn't Vietnam. For starters, Iraq is much more important. Success in Iraq is absolutely central to long-term victory in the on Terror.

Not so for Vietnam in the context of the Cold War, that long, gritty siege to contain the Soviet Union and its communist clients. Germany and Korea were the Cold War's central theaters, the spark points for global nuclear warfare. The Vietnam War — so costly and destructive — was a tough fight in a valuable but less-than-decisive region. Despite Vietnam's draining loss, the West won the Cold War.

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, July 25, 2003

Quote of the Day by Paul Atreides

[highpockets]

Iraq is not Vietnam but Vietnam had the french and the Frogs pull strings for Iraq

[Right_in_Virginia]

From the article: ~"Iraq is strategic offense directed at the dictators and genocidal ideologues whose design for the 21st century is 12th-century autocracy imposed by death squads and nukes."

The case for war in a nutshell.

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