Parallels between Vietnam and Iraq?

Question

More and more I am seeing paralles between Vietnam & Iraq. The US kicks A** in all out war. But in wars where there are no clear objective, we don't do well. My feeling is that we need to either play to win or pull out.

Answer 1

The only true parallels are the Democrats don't want to do what it takes to win! They want us to play fair (Geneva Convention Rules) against an enemy that has no such scruples!

Answer 2

There was no real plan for victory in Vietnam, and there appears to be none for Iraq.
A parallel can also be drawn to the now discredited domino theory, which suggested that the fall of Vietnam would lead to a Communist takeover of all of Asia. President Bush promised a similar domino effect in the Middle East in which the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would lead to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and the flowering of democracy throughout the region. The failure to install democracy in Iraq will likely lead to a long winter of autocracy in the Middle East before other states even attempt meaningful democratic reforms.
Vietnam and Iraq were both wars of choice.
In retrospect, it is clear we had no idea what we were getting into when we marched into Vietnam, and the same appears true in Iraq.
In reference to Vietnam, President Johnson pledged in April 1965: "We will not withdraw, either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement." Four decades later, President Bush pledged: "We’ve got to stay the course and we will stay the course" in Iraq.The American people -- and the Iraqi people -- deserve better than this. They are entitled to a well-thought-out, credible plan, detailing how the administration expects to achieve its objectives in Iraq. A realistic plan is also a prerequisite to engaging fully the international community in reconstruction efforts.

Answer 3

We're in a no win situation. We started a war for no reason. The longer we stay the more enemies we'll make out of the people we are trying to help. If we pull out we will have left the country in far worse condition than we found it. But if we want to win the war then we would have to destroy the hell out of the place and many more innocent people will be killed. Either way we lose and the people of Iraq lose too.

Answer 4

I dont understand if we in fact, went into Iraq for oil or not. I nevertheless have not considered any info that this replaced into the reason. i'm not helping it or against it. Im independent, by using fact i myself do not understand the great tale. yet so some distance as Vietnam, i think of we did a solid element via entering into there and ended up getting our rear ends exceeded to us for it. i don't think of they are comparable in any respect. i think of we had alot of sturdy motives to pass into Vietnam and it is evident to me. the excuses for iraq at the instant are not so evident to me. the only element i will evaluate between the two is that throughout the two international places, there replaced into an oppressed team (south vietnamese, and iraqi shiites), despite if one has been liberated and the different replaced into not. yet in the two wars, there have been 2 oppressed communities that have been liberated as a result. Iraqi shiites at the instant are unfastened from saddam, or perhaps although the undesirable adult males (viet cong) won the vietnam conflict, they ended up removing the khmer rouge in Cambodia who have been even worse than them, so Cambodians could stay particularly unfastened back.

Answer 5

The bleeding heart liberal don't want us to win. They want us to play with kid gloves on or they want us to pull out in disgrace.

You may also notice that a lot of these bleeding heart liberals have never served in the military. They never had to defend any of the rights we have in freedom. They just have big mouths! Most of the time they have nothing to back up the BS they saying and when someone tries to correct them they will be rude and talk at the same time and/or talk louder so the person telling the facts can't be heard.

Then you have the Jane Fonda and Ted Kennedy crowd that fight for the enemy from within. They use their money and popularity to get on the news and what they have to say cost US military lives.

Answer 6

Well I do have a clue!!!!
And the problem in Iraq is identical to the problem we had in Vietnam.
THE POPULATION DOESN'T WANT WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO JAM DOWN THEIR THROATS!!!!

Oh,, and when we went into Vietnam the Democrats were in power and it was the Replublicans that protested the war!!!!!
(It was also the Democrats that tried the "troop surge" thing that didn't work in Vietnam)

Answer 7

Then you have no clue what went on in Vietnam and certainly not what is going on today in Iraq.