Is Iraq our Next Vietnam?

Several articles have been written lately using the "q" word, quagmire, to describe America's occupation of Iraq, and to show certain similarities between the Vietnam War and Gulf War II. While there are some common strands, there appears to be a much more obvious, and ominous conflict parallel: Israel's defeat in Southern Lebanon by Hezbollah's resistance fighters.

Incidentally, note also the predominate use of the word "arrest" when our Government speaks about the capture of any of the insurgents; yet refuses to acknowledge that the CPA and American forces in Iraq are attempting to do police work, not classically defined military conquest or pacification. And additional bad-sign occurred last week when the ICDC, (Iraqi Civil Defense Corp) refused to join with American forces in Nasiriyah and Falluja in controlling insurgent violence.

Whoever is responsible for the atrocious strategic and tactical planning for the War's aftermath should be relieved of command access immediately. Our country cannot afford to be guided in War or National Defense by such incompetents ! The insurgents appear to be geniuses compared to US forces in their ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Roadside bombs, abductions, RPG's, targeted assassinations, factional militias, hatred of occupiers, all this was eminently knowable long before the War started, yet the Administration took us into this quagmire with it's eyes wide shut, and now has the audacity to suggest we have no option other than to commit more US resources to a solution. If this War/Occupation were a football game, we would already be down twenty-one to zip, and it would still be the first quarter!