Carol Platt Liebau: The Vietnam/Iraq Comparison

Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Vietnam/Iraq Comparison

This blog noted yesterday that Jim Webb discouraged comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq, lest it undermine his efforts to drive down support for the Iraq mission.

Here's a piece by Fred Barnes that describes in more detail why Webb is right to shun the Vietnam comparisons.

1 Comments:

Blogger Earth to Carol said...

Another discredited Neocon man.

"The war was the hard part. The hard part was putting together a coalition, getting 300,000 troops over there and all their equipment and winning. And it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but it is not as hard as winning a war."
(Fox News Channel's Fred Barnes, 4/10/03)

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