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Article: IRAQ: SHADOWS OF VIETNAM GEORGE W. BUSH NEVER LEARNED THE LIGHT'S OUT AT THE END OF TUNNEL.(Viewpoint)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- December 12, 2004
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Byline: Kevin O'Leary
VIETNAM and Iraq are vastly different places. One is in Southeast Asia, the other at the crossroads of the Middle East. One is jungle and rice paddies, the other desert and densely packed cities. Like many Americans, I have resisted making a comparison between the two wars. Vietnam was a painful time and a futile, dreadful war, which we lost. Yet it is increasingly clear that there are eerie and depressing parallels between the two conflicts.
As in Vietnam, a Texan with little experience in foreign affairs has plunged the American superpower into a war where the enemy, vastly outgunned by U.S. military power, is mounting an ...