Syria Isn’t Iraq. Everything Isn’t Iraq

[Bluenorthwest]

6. That figures, because they said Iraq was not Vietnam, not everything is Vietnam!

Why Iraq and Vietnam have nothing whatsoever in common.
By Christopher Hitchens
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2005/01/beating_a_dead_parrot.html

No, Iraq Is Not Vietnam

By TONY KARON
There are, in fact, many reasons why Iraq is nothing like Vietnam or any other U.S. experience, but both sides in the American debate over the war have chosen to ignore them. For the antiwar left, Iraq has always recalled the great American trauma of Vietnam, a misguided war of choice that ended badly after a decade of pointless savagery; for the war's advocates on the right, Iraq recalled the great American triumph of rebuilding postwar Japan and Germany. Yes, it is hard to imagine that they were serious, but it wasn't simply PR, either — some of the policy documents used by the U.S. occupation administration in Baghdad were based on policies used in the Allied occupation of Germany.

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1548897,00.html