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Until we stop fighting like Vietnam we will not stop getting results like Vietnam. Syria is a sanctuary, so is Iran. Why do we allow our enemies sanctuary? Go into Syria and take that government down. Same with Iran. Shock and Awe for them. But instead we continue with bullet magnet patrols. Tagline:

First off, the current war in Iraq (and GWOT) is nothing like Vietnam - (just suggesting that shows you have a lack of intellectually honesty behind our views OR you are unwilling to be intellectually honest...for whatever reasons).

Additionally the majority (great majority) of those we are fighting ARE NOT from foreign Countries - Roughly between 5-10% are foreign fighters....the other 90% are mostly Sunni Iraqi Arabs (though the foreign fighters are a very violent bunch).

Ever heard of Cambodia and Laos? Syria and Iran? All four were or are presently used as sanctuaries by our enemies. In Vietnam as in Iraq we are not using our Air Force over the areas were the enemy is gathering - then it was N. Vietnam now its Syria and Iran.

Then we were worried about destroying religious buildings, the battle of Hue comes to mind, today the same thing, we don't let anyone touch a Mosque unless the shoot at us from there.

IN Vietnam we had a war of attrition, today we have an average of 66 dead a month, but because our military is much smaller and we don't have a draft the attrition on our military is greater.

There are truly many things the same in Iraq today as there were in Nam a third of a century ago.

Some of the differences are troublesome also. For example, the United States had not one but TWO superpowers to worry about, which where openly supporting N. Vietnam. Even with these worries, we still bombed parts of N.V. Laos and Cambodia, sometimes. Today no superpower supports Iran or Syria and yet our President does nothing to these two enemy sanctuaries.

So there you have it. Nam = Iraq. Unless we stop this kinder gentler compassionate war fighting, we are destined to repeat the lessons of Vietnam instead of repeating the Victory of WW2. Tagline: