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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THE REAL IRAQ-VIETNAM CONNECTION. Iraq and Vietnam aren't comparable situations because they're both military quagmires, Terence Samuel argues, but because they both instilled in the American people a profound distrust of government:
Proselytizing comparisons are often unhelpful in actually solving problems, so there has never been much point in comparing Iraq to Vietnam either militarily or geopolitically. But what the Iraq war has produced in the American people is surely an echo of what Vietnam produced in its time -- a profound erosion of trust in the people leading the war and an overwhelming sense that what we are doing no longer makes sense.Read the whole thing here.--The Editors
