Does anyone see parallels between Iraq and the Vietnam war?

Question

'We have to stay, or it will be terrible'...where have I heard THAT before?

Answer 1

I am not fully versed on the ins and outs and all the particulars, but from what I have seen, I do see parallels. Most notably I see the difference of the US entering the Iraqi War under what I see as false pretenses that have never been openly admitted and then continuing fruitlessly to the point of endangering own people and resources. Even with the similarities, the Iraqi soldiers are being treated with the highest esteem as "faithful heroes" and the Vietnam soldiers were, and still are treated as "dirty scum" with disrespect and disdain. What is up with that? My husband, as a Vietnam vet sees this very clearly, as do his peers.

It doesn't seem reasonable for the US to concentrate all of our energy, resources and countless countrymen when the US has so many issues to take care of on our own soil like poverty, homelessness, education, help for seniors, and so much more. Even a small part of the dollar amount of all of that could have contributed immeasurably towards making positive changes in our own back yard.

To all Vietnam Vets, WELCOME HOME!

Answer 2

I dont know if we in reality, went into Iraq for oil or no longer. I nevertheless have not considered any evidence that this replaced into the reason. i'm no longer helping it or hostile to it. Im impartial, because i actually do no longer know the comprehensive tale. yet so some distance as Vietnam, i imagine we did a sturdy ingredient with the help of stepping into there and ended up getting our rear ends exceeded to us for it. i do not imagine they're similar in any respect. i imagine we had alot of sturdy motives to bypass into Vietnam and it is clear to me. the excuses for iraq are not from now on so obtrusive to me. the surely ingredient i'll evaluate between both is that in both international places, there replaced into an oppressed crew (south vietnamese, and iraqi shiites), besides the very undeniable reality that one has been liberated and the different replaced into no longer. yet in both wars, there have been 2 oppressed communities that were liberated for this reason. Iraqi shiites are literally loose from saddam, or perhaps in spite of the reality that the undesirable adult men (viet cong) received the vietnam conflict, they ended up taking away the khmer rouge in Cambodia who were even worse than them, so Cambodians might want to stay really loose back.

Answer 3

Well the same people who said it then under Nixon are back in power with Bush.

I noticed in JC Pennys the other day that many of the shirts were made in Vietnam. Vietnam seems to have survived pretty well under a regime we fought very hard to keep from conquering the South. And now we are trading with them and outsourcing US jobs there.

There's the lesson that history can offer us. And maybe this time we don't have to wait until 50K Americans have died before we move on. And maybe winged monkeys will fly out of my butt....

Answer 4

people say that there is a connection, the only connection is that it is losing the support of many people in our country. that is for different reason than in vietnam. the media just gives people a lobsided view on the war that many times is not true. when we were in vietnam, the peole of vietnam didn't want us there. people in iraq realize they need us and don't say that isn't true. It is our duty to protect democracy in our world so another hitler doesn't rise to power and that is what we are doing. in vietnam, the president made a war without congress declaring war. they had no way out. soon after vietnam the gulf of tonkin resolution was passed so the president could only send troops to war for 90 days, after that, congress can pull them out whenever they want. If we really needed to be out of iraq, congress would take us out. Bush isn't an all powerful dictator, he is just a good president trying to make the world a better place.

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Answer 5

My daughter who is 13 and very socially aware asked me the same question the other day. I was a child during the vietnam war-and yes I see simalarities. (soliders are getting treated badly upon returning home, we are fighting someone elses war and we are not taking care of our own, if our solider get killed will we wonder what the sacrifice was for-I know I will) It scares me too!

Answer 6

Ummm....we didn't stay in Vietnam and it was terrible.

How can you ignore the millions of South Vietnamese and Cambodians that were murdered becase we decided that we couldn't support our allies with a little air power?

How can you live with yourself. Don't you care about all those that were murdered?

If we abandon it, Iraq will be terrible, just as southeast Asia was when we abandoned it.

Answer 7

It's not the same thing at all. That's just some cliche among yuppies. As a republican, I admit it's a farse. But I'm all for invading iran and Syria. Iraq was pretty pointless.

Answer 8

It is a fundamental fact of all military aggression that you cannot break a country without owning its broken pieces afterwards. Colin Powell said it best best to President Bush- break Iraq and you will own it!

Be careful what you wish for!

Answer 9

What can you say, History repeats itself. I am interested in what will happen when we get a new president. If we get a Democrat will he be like Kennedy and want to bring the troops home? And then some crazy person will assassinate him.

Answer 10

towards the end of the veitnam war a guy said time to pull out, and we did, because it was towards the end, the same guy has said the same thing about iraq, and so has generals on hte field, bush says he listens to them, but the say difernt stuff.