Will Iraq turn into another Vietnam? The Government of USA did not learn the lesson?

Answer 1

On the contrary. We learned our lesson about Vietnam very well. That's why we are no longer listening to the seditious people in our country, why patriots on both sides (Democrat, like myself, and Republicans) are standing up and speaking out about how wrong the sedition is, refusing to stay silent despite the name-calling, the rumor-mongering, being treated as "guilty until proven innocent" by people who simultaneously get upset at being called "unpatriotic" while undermining our elected representatives at every opportunity.

We learned our lessons well.

It is no longer "cool" to hate America.

Answer 2

Statements like "Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War" from one poster is indicative of how uninformed some people are. Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense from November 20, 1975 to January 20, 1977. Given that the last American troops left Vietnam on April 30, 1975 (the day Saigon fell), Donald Rumsfeld did not serve as Secretary of Defense during the conflict. Iraq is the wrong war for the wrong reason against the wrong enemy. The most significant similarity between Iraq and Vietnam is that both countries are/were ruled by weak, corrupt governments. Even our best effort in Iraq will prove futile since the government is incapable of quelling domestic strife. All we've accomplished is to replace a strong, corrupt government with a weak corrupt government.

Answer 3

Maybe yes and no, but yes. If that makes sense. Vietnam and Iraq are wars we entered to help innocent civilians and deal with turf battles. We bombed the heck outta Vietnam and don't use such tactics now. SO we learned something. The people of the Middle East believe in suicide as a means toward glory for the cause. The Viet Cong were not so loyal.
They are two separate wars. Must be thought of as separate and given the very few similarities it is best not promoted as same. They have common factors but a whole nother playing field. Thank you.

Answer 4

A lot of differences. People need to educate themselves a little. This is a fight against the idea of terrorism. The news media can't say that as it would damage their agenda. In Vietnam, the US took around 60,000 in casualties and missing. In the big picture, over 900,000 solders were listed as killed or missing in its entirety on both sides. Not even close in this war. It would be nice to hear some of the other sides stats, but you wont hear that either in our news media, for the same reason.

The times were different, the attitudes were different, and to say that this is the same thing... an aging flowerchilds dream. Not even close.

Many lessons were learned from Vietnam, as will be learned from this war. Hopefully in 10-15 years down the road, we wont need IED detection units in the streets on L.A. or N.Y., but well see.

Answer 5

No. The comparisons are the recommendations baby of the comparable sort of anti-conflict, pacifist, recommendations ineffective and ignorant flower power jerks that exceptionally lots conceded to the North Viet Namese's smoke and reflect methods aimed, no longer on the troops, yet on the yank human beings - and, regardless of triumphing each and every substantial conflict, we lost the conflict. And we will lose this one, too, if we proceed to suck up the media's anti-conflict rhetoric and proceed to forget approximately with reference to the Islamic terrorists' threats and demands. regrettably, the end results of loosing this conflict would be a hell of lots extra devastating than Viet Nam. The North Viet Namese did no longer persist with the troops back to the states and produce the conflict to our seashores.

Answer 6

Your right, the Government did not learn it's lesson. And that is to get their noses out of it and let the military run the war.

Answer 7

At least these soldiers are not being drafted!
But it's just about impossible to get war and combat out of men's systems----and, a huge army establishment must make itself seem useful to keep surviving and getting funded, so a war will be invented, if possible.

Answer 8

The saddest thing is that our leaders didn't learn from previous mistakes. Viet Nam wasn't that long ago. You would have thought that no one would have ever wanted that to happen again. Maybe if George Bush had actually been there he would have been a little more hesitant.

Answer 9

you have a peoples resistance , taking on the superpower with 1960's and 1970's small arms, in the 4th year still going hard. In a country like mine that does not censor the Irak war, we can clearly see another Vietnam. If America dropped the censorship around the war, you could see for yourself the grim realities that it has become another Vietnam.

Answer 10

Way past Vietnam, we've lost our way. We're still getting our asses killed in Iraq with no end in sight and the Hawks are already starting the drum beat for Iran.