Vietnam's Shadow Lies Across Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0926-05.htm
by Stanley Karnow
By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome," President George H.W. Bush
crowed after his swift triumph in the Gulf War in 1991. His effusive
proclamation was meant to suggest that the U.S. public had finally
shaken off the memory of the humiliating disaster in the Far East and
would henceforth underwrite fresh engagements overseas, without guilt
or anxiety.
But he was mistaken. His optimism notwithstanding, Americans remained
haunted by the specter of a defeat in some distant realm, and their
uneasiness continued as President George W. Bush made his plans to
invade Iraq. The younger Bush excoriated pundits who cautioned that we
faced a catastrophe there, and at first he seemed to have been proved
correct, as Americans witnessed the amazing speed with which our
battalions drove into Baghdad. But it has since become apparent that
Iraq, if not exactly "another Vietnam," could degenerate into an
equally calamitous debacle.
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