Former Senator Max Cleland said the War in Iraq has a parallel with an earlier conflict.
What he didn't say was how absolutely wrong the Secretaries of Defense have been in initial diagnosis, prosecution, and qualitative cost/benefit analysis in both conflicts. Nor did he point to one of the primary dissimilarities. The Vietcong had no real way of attacking Americans in America; but the Arab fighters are not so hindered. Nor were the Vietcong fighting for the primacy of their religious heritage, or their ancestral homes. Israel and America are both busy building walls, not fences maintained by neighbors. The Maginot Line, the DMZ and the Berlin Wall spoke of the folly of these feeble efforts to earlier generations; but this one is not listening.
posted by Richard at
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
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