It's beginning to look like Vietnam

[Felix Mala]

Posted on Tue, Jan. 11, 2005

BY STUART HERRINGTON

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Miami Herald

The drumbeat began within a few months after statues of Saddam Hussein toppled. President Bush and his neocon clique had gotten the United States into a Vietnam-like quagmire. Many of us wrote that the differences between Iraq and Vietnam were vast. Besides, had not the same critics trotted out the ''Q'' word within weeks of the invasion of Afghanistan?

Nearly two years into the war, as the Iraqi elections approach, some unsettling parallels to Vietnam have surfaced. As one who abandoned the hapless South Vietnamese on April 30, 1975, in a helicopter from the U.S. Embassy roof, I have pondered the strategic misjudgments that led to that betrayal for 30 years.

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