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In pdx.general Tim Smith <timothysmith@dsl-only.net> wrote:
: Dave Thompson wrote:
:> 
:> "gregorio cortez" <sheriffkiller@vivalaraza.net> wrote in message
:> news:RcI09.318155$iX5.15927698@bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
:> > It would have been a more accurate title for Ms. Knight's diatribe...
:> 
:> It would be even more accurate to call your baseless opposition
:> unsubstantial and cowardly.
:> 
:> Not a liberal myself but she does have some points to discuss. Care to get
:> specific?
: She does have a few good points. Like why does he assume that Iraq
: continues to be a threat?  If you go into Iraq, it could be another
: Vietnam or worse.  

I'm not arguing in favor of America simply invading Iraq, but I think
it's silly that everyone categorizes any military engagement since
Vietnam as "another Vietnam".  Vietnam was a unique situation, and
just about everything is different between Iraq today and Vietnam in
the 1960's:  the internal political situation, world power situation
(e.g. cold war), terrain (jungle vs. desert), you name it.  The
American Military has shown at least twice since Vietnam - the Gulf
War and Kosovo (both undoubtedly described beforehand as "another
potential Vietnam") - that it can engage an enemy and win.  

Simiarly, people were blindly warning after Sept. 11 that everyone
else who had tried to fight a war in Afghanistan (the Russians, the
British, etc.) had failed miserably - yet these naysayers fail to
understand that the stituation prior to the American engagement there
was far different than in the past.  And that's why (though
Afghanistan is far from peaceful yet) the American has been so
successful there so far, defying wildly the early naysayers.

So don't worry about Iraq becoming "another Vietnam".  It's not
Vietnam.

Andrew
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