is it true the war in iraq will end up like the vietnam war?

Answer 1

NO!

Answer 2

No. Unlike Vietnam, The U.S. can play the whole field. The U.S. was limited to South Vietnam in the Vietnam civil war. The U.S. is also going giving territory back to Iraq, so if the country falls apart, it would be because the population would want it that way. By the second quarter of next year, almost 100% of the U.S. forces in Iraq would be in less than 20% of Iraq with the other 80% being governed soley by Iraq.

Answer 3

Maybe, it could be similar to 1864 if retreatist politicians are elected.

Had the Peace Democrats succeeded it is likely slavery would have continued and the Confederate States of America would have been allowed to secede from the Union and the United States would be remain a nation divided today. Lincoln’s presidency would have been a disgrace and he would have been forever labeled the president that broke the Union.

Peace Democrats. Many Democrats within this group hoped that the Union could be salvaged, but felt that military means were not justified. This faction asserted the following:
•The North was responsible for pushing the South into secession
•The Republicans were committed to establishing racial equality, a prospect opposed by many working class immigrants who wanted to protect their low-paying jobs and by racists
•Lincoln had become a tyrant and was bent upon destroying civil liberties
•The war was a national tragedy and must be ended, even if that meant granting independence to the Confederacy.

Does this sound familiar?

The historic moral victory will be achieved when the Middle East is free from the yoke of Islamic tyranny and oppression. The war of cultures will either be fought in the middle east or in your back yard, the choice is yours.

Answer 4

Iraq is lost, just like Afghanistan. It's like Vietnam in that our government lied to get us into in it. It's not like Vietnam in that we'll be out in the near future.

There is no 'course' to 'stay on', and even the administration knows that now. They won't do anything until after the election next month, but within a couple months after that they will begin redeploying our forces.

They need to do something before the 2008 presidential election, and they can't wait too long or even more people will realize what a shallow and cheap political trick it is.

It does not matter to anyone in the administration that more Americans and Iraqis will die in the meantime.

Answer 5

Seems like it at times ...........1) Especially when all the crying ,whining liberals are saying we have to get out of Iraq before the next election. 2)The media shoves bad news and BS down our throats every day. 3) Most people think the troops are isolated and buy the garbage message "we support you - just not what you are doing".

No matter how you word it- cutting and running is handing Iraq to the terrorists.

Just what the terrorist thought we would do all along -- If the war takes more than a few years Americans will abandon Iraq and whine their way home

Answer 6

It's beginning to look like it, in Nam the enemy didn't try to defeat us in battle, they just prolonged the pain until the voter's opposition made continuing the war political suicide for the elected officials. There is nothing stopping the Iraqi resistance from trying the same thing. What we mustn't forget is that they see themselves as freedom fighters defending their homes and families from a foreign invader bent on destroying their culture and controlling their oil fields. If a foreign nation invaded the U.S. overthrew our government and demanded we re-write our laws according their notion of what was good for us, would we resist? I dearly hope so. Don't waste all our time arguing with me, I'm not the one you have to convince, talk to the guys in Iraq shooting at our troops, they're the ones you have to convince.

Answer 7

nicely , capability , food and intercourse . are the appropriate motivations on the earth no count how complicated they become now am optimistic that the iraqi ppl ,as any ppl whos united states become demolished , are hungry , detrimental , scared ,has no wish and that they can quite do not something approximately it . so they could do what they could desire to do (as the different ppl could) with the intention to proceed to exist i'm optimistic that there are A L O T of sexual crimes are being commited in iraq ,as in any united states at conflict , the invador squaddies are consistently far off from abode , and that they choose some sack , top? . so without morality or admire for iraqi ppl additionally they do what they could desire to do and existence is going on no person will ever reject or preotect as there isn't any own interrests for absolutely everyone to guard them . so the international additionally do what they could desire to try this's the definition of mankind

Answer 8

No one really knows how the war in Iraq will end. In my opinion it should never have started. Now we have so many other countries with great anger towards America.

Answer 9

no, we are much more in control of the situation than the media leads us to believe .... the unrest is instigated by the US as an excuse to stay and to get the population to kill each other off in iraq until the numbers are reduced to a manageable level ... the mid-east conflict and conquest is only partly complete ... iraq, georgia, and afganistan have triangulated iran in ... and they will be next and the US is taking it nice and easy just like they took a decade to move into iraq ...

Answer 10

It already HAS!

The war in Vietnam got to its worst point when the US was spending more time fighting the Viet Cong (VC) who hid among the population, than when they were fighting the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). In Iraq and Afghanistan the US is well into that mess and it is getting worse.

The NVA could be bombed, engaged in conventional battle and tracked down. Most of the VC were hidden under the villages and among the population. The US had a very hard time fighting them. Often they would clear a village one day, to find that it was controlled by the VC the day after.

During the Vietnam War the US didn't have a lot of precision guided weapons. The first precision guided weapon was the Cruise Missile, and it was theorized that it would only get within a few hundred meters of the target (we know better now).

The precision weapons that that the US uses today were invented just in case if the US ever got into a war that was similar to Vietnam. Desert Storm saw their first use, and they worked very well. Now the US has bombs and missiles that can hit the air vent on a bunker, and send a second shot through that same hole. These weapons have been tested in combat and are reliable. Until Desert Storm though they were still not sure just how accurate those weapons could really be in combat.

But, even the precision weapons of the US are failing it. Restrictions like not damaging Mosques, or trying to limit the civilian casualties makes it harder and harder to use these weapons. Even a small bomb makes a big crater. In response to this the US has redesigned its Infantry forces to use the Striker. This combat vehicle is well protected and has a smart secure Internet connection so it can send and receive real time intelligence. An Infantry Squad on a Striker doesn’t just know the last place where a suspected terrorist was shooting, but the commander can see the images of that suspected terrorist and tell the squad leader where to find him. But, even with this precision it is impossible to root out all the terrorists, as soon as they drop their weapons and hide they look like any other male in the population.

Now the well leaked National Intelligence Report has shown that all the US efforts to kill terrorists is only creating more terrorists. The terrorists see Iraq and Afghanistan as the cause celeb, they are flocking to the region to fight the US. The big reason why the US hasn’t seen a foreign attack by terrorists is that it is cheaper and easier to go to either Iraq or Afghanistan and fight there, then it is to try and get into the US and execute an attack there. Now we have “homegrown” terrorists who come from our own population, like the London attack, the plot in Canada, and the plot to use airplanes from England with homemade explosives aboard. These groups are starting from citizens of those nations who got angry about the US and British actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just as the National Intelligence Report said the US and British attacks on terrorists is only creating more terrorists.

The War in Vietnam was really a civil war, the communist North wanted to unite with the democratic South. When the VC started to get more control of the population the war became unwinnable, it just took a while for the US to realize it. That realization was the final straw that caused the US to start its withdrawal.

Sadam Hussian was a brutal dictator, and now we know why. He had to be to prevent civil war from erupting in his country and for everything to descend into chaos. That is what is happening now. The civil war between the Sunni and the Shiites has been smoldering since a few years after the death of Mohammed in the 6th century, it has never really stopped, and only strong rulership prevented it from happening. That strong leadership came to Afghanistan and Iran in the form of a religious dictatorship. Only a moderate religious rule could be relied on to not let the Shiites and Sunnis destroy each other and to give them fair rule. The problem is that when you put the power of government and religion into the hands of one group, and you make that religion the state religion then that group has absolute power. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, that’s why the rule of the Talibin was so harsh. First they had to be strict to control the population, then they had to be the only rulers because the people wouldn’t stand for any other rulers, and finally all that power went to their heads. It is the fatal flaw of most dictatorships. The moderate rule of the Talibin and the Ayatollahs in Iran quickly became a strict one, then even stricter, and by Western standards a crazy rulership.

The situation in Iraq is becoming so unstable that it will soon be impossible to keep a lid on it. The only reason that the current government is still in power is because of the US backing. Meanwhile the US is bleeding and almost having its metaphoric arm pulled off. The public opinion of the war is unfavorable, but nowhere near as unfavorable as it was during the Vietnam War. George Bush’s handler, Dick Cheney is blind to this (or doesn’t care) so the Republicans keep up the fight. George Bush Senior knew better than to try and take over Iraq. He could have easily done it, but since he was head of the CIA before he became president he knew that would be a mistake. Too bad his son couldn’t bring himself to ask his father for advice.

If the Democrats win the election this November then they could gain control over Congress. If they win the election in 2 years then they WILL take control over the Congress and the Presidency. When the New Year starts (and the politicians elected in November take office) they will start a draw down in forces. Then it will be a race between the terrorists and the civil war to destroy the Iraqi government. The US will try to keep helping the government, but that government is as doomed as the South Vietnamese Government was after the US pulled out of Vietnam. The North Vietnamese knew that when the US left it could take over the country so they waited and made a calm take over. I don’t think that the Moslem fighters will have that much control; there will be chaos. Even if the three sides try to keep it calm, someone, some radical, will push it too hard and the fighting will continue. If that doesn’t happen then one faction will start fighting so it can take control. So the war will be a bloody one until the US pulls out completely. At that point the Iraqi government will fall. If the civil war doesn’t bring it down, then the terrorists will, if the terrorists won’t then, the government of Iran will make sure it happens. Iran hates the US and will want to remove any US influence from Iraq, they also favor a religious rule so they will want to put that type of rule in power.

For the US the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has already turned into another Vietnam War, and it is only going to get worse. In Vietnam the Viet Cong were disciplined fighters. They might have acted like terrorists toward the US and to the South Vietnamese, but they listened to the North Vietnamese Government. When the NVA told them to wait before taking over, they did. They gave the US time to withdrawal, and time for things to calm down. They waited until after President Nixon left office and the US support for Vietnam started to collapse. Then the North Vietnamese Army started its march into South Vietnam. The calmly and coolly took over. The madhouse at the US Embassy happened a few years after the US had pulled out. Most of the madness was caused by South Vietnamese trying to flee the country. The attacks on the airport were more of a “get the heck out” statement than a real attack. Once the planes left Vietnamese airspace they weren’t pursued, and the ships offshore were not attacked.

The same won’t be true in Iraq and Afghanistan; no matter what the US does it will be a bloody mess. The Iraqi Government will be torn into shreds, and it will be amazing if Iran doesn’t install some sort of puppet government. The US entered Afghanistan and Iraq to decrease the world threat, but they have only increased it. The US wanted to make it hostile for terrorists, but they have only attracted and created more and the countries are so disorganized that the terrorists openly control regions. The US wanted to punish those that supported the attacks on 9/11, instead they have gotten away, reorganized and their groups are more attractive to the young terrorist than ever.

In short the US entered the Middle East in an attempt to generate peace, but they have only generated chaos and discord. The situation is worse than Vietnam ever was, and it is only to get even worse. After the dust from the US Vietnam war settled relations have also settled. People can trade and travel to each country, and they don’t meet hate among the population, even when people who once fought each other they can meet and accept each other. After the US pulls out of Afghanistan and Iraq they will have created two more Irans, making the political situation worse than it was before during the aftermath of 9/11.

Answer 11

In Iraq we technically won the war.

We just can't win the peace.

Both wars may be fruitless efforts.