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An 'Absolute Will To Forget': Iraq Casts Shorter Shadow Than VietnamSometimes the whole country wants to forget.
Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. The last U.S. troops didn't leave that country until the end of 2011.
But Iraq, which dominated much of the nation's political discourse over the past decade, already seems largely forgotten.
"The Iraq War casts a shadow, but not a very large one," says Richard Kohn, a military historian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/15/174425566/an-absolute-will-to-forget-iraq-casts-shorter-shadow-than-vietnam?ft=1&f=1001
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Move along, nothing to see here...#@%!!! (Original Post)
IDemo
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Archae
(46,340 posts)1. The biggest difference is this...
It was Democrats who got us deep into that Vietnam mess.
Especially LBJ and his "Escalation."
It was Republicans who lied about and then invaded Iraq.
Oh that's different!
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)2. It's because of the controlled reporting.
No body bags on TV. No scenes of US troops caught in a firefight. No draft.
No listing of the KIA on the local drug store window.
Nothing but "support our troops"
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)3. And the media doesn't want to talk about it now, either.
Ten years on, and they're still downplaying or flat out not mentioning that we were lied into Iraq.
olddots
(10,237 posts)4. this war is partially about ratings
War has become an episodic series that people forget past the shiny patriotic pilot episode .
onethatcares
(16,178 posts)5. and it seems the producers
constantly have another episode in the wings, just waiting to bring it out.