Why is Iraq ending up like Vietnam?

Question

Will we fight for 10 years and cut and run? Do we now know this war is hopeless?

Answer 1

Because the yanks didnt learn any lessons from Nam, i bet those poor kids returning from the hell of iraq do not even get proper mental health treatment. Yes i bet they do run & leave it. History repeating itself.

Answer 2

This is the problem. We give up way to easy. What would have happened if today's "its too hard so I quit" society had been the norm in WWI or WWII.........We'd be speaking japanese or german.

We need to as a country stand together and say these people are dangerous and need to be stopped at any cost. ONLY then can we ever hope to stay free.

Yes Vietnam and Iraq are very similiar. It's mainly do to the enemy we are fighting. We are fighting cowards who see no value in human life. They hide in churches, schools, and hospitals while they shoot at us because they know the Geneva Convention prevent us from attacking these structures.

Many people think we should just pull out. These people are far too consumed with short term to see the big picture. We pulled out in the 90s and Saddam thought we were a big joke and built a palace to celebrate our failure. If we pull out countries like Syria and Iran will capitalize on the weak structure of Iraq and the problems we face now will seem like the good ol' days compared to what we would be facing.

We must not forget who we are fighting agianst. These people blow up schools, they kill innocent people for no logical reason, one couple put a bomb in their infants bottle... these things can not be ignored.

Islamic Jihad is just as deadly if not more so than the third reich or Japanese imperialism. We must have the guts to stand up agianst them as our forefathers have done.

It took our country 300 years, a revolutionary war(what Iraq is currently in), a 5 year civil war, and numerous trial and errors to become what we are today. How can we honestly expect these people to become a perfect democracy over night when we couldn't even do it.

Instead of being the lazy impatient American's that we have saddely become we need to understand that something take time and work.

Any man who would risk his child's future for the sake of his present is no man at all.

One of my favorite quotes when people say things like this war is "taking to long" or is "becoming to hard" is from John Stuart Mill........."War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "

Answer 3

from another person that answered this very same question.

It's called "Spin," and it's a highly inaccurate characterization of this conflict, mostly from anti-war and anti-Bush propagandists. I agree that 3,000 service men and women KIA is no small sacrifice and no less as great as that of our Vietnam Hero's. Unfortunately, opponents often negate and undermine the sacrifices of these American Hero's by ignoring the mission, the accomplishments, and the personal sacrifices of our fallen countrymen and women, as well as the alternative to not combating our enemies abroad. The message we have sent to the world is as important as the act of war. The enemy we fight understands strength and has no respect for weakness. We have seen nothing of OBL since he was bombed back into the stone age, and we have not suffered a single terrorist attack at one of our domestic nor our foreign installations outside of Iraq or Afghanistan since bringing the fight to the terrorists. Prior to 9/11, we were hit quite frequently in Embassies, ports, ships and airliners throughout the world on an almost daily basis. People often forget that.

Answer 4

Iraq and Vietnam are not ending up the same way. Iraq is making progress toward stability - slow but still progress. They will be able to assume full responsibilities for themselves in the end where Vietnam didn't and couldn't.

Answer 5

It's not. The real news is the violence has been decreasing and the providences are being turned over to Iraq's government. Just recently major Sunni tribes switched over to supporting the government and a U.S. unit that was patroling a providence will not be replaced when it goes home. Instead a unit there will be spread to two providences and finally that unit won't be replaced as the Iraqis take over.

Answer 6

this war is only hopeless because like Viet Nam the government will not let the soldier do his job.the job of a soldier is to kill the enemy and in this case not knowing who the enemy is ,like in Nam, you have to kill them all.put the fear of God or should I say allah in them.If they know that they are going to be killed just for looking suspicious they will be helping us find those who are.
Let us fight on our terms not some government official who doesn't know the first thing about how to fight the enemy because he never had the oppertunity to watch his friend get blown to pieces by a child that was rigged with a c4 explosive divice. Gen.Sherman,during the cival war had the right idea.He took his army ,spread them out 20 miles wide and set them on a course toward Savanah and told them nothing in your path shall remain standing or alive. push them to the sea and beyond.destroy everything and they don't have a chance .

Answer 7

Because the "war" is over, what we are doing now is called a police action. We are trying to support one side in a civil war.

Answer 8

It's not really.

The aging hippies from the Vietnam era are now politicians and in the news business. They are communicating their same anti-war sentiment and have been interpreting Iraq through their Vietnam template since the war in Iraq began. You're foolish enough to believe all of their crap.

Answer 9

The only simularity is the fact that both wars are/were dealing with insurgencies. The players are different, the terrain is different, the cultures are different, the conditions for victory are different, and the fighting is different.

Answer 10

It is no Vietnam. There are similarities, but there will be no where near the losses in Iraq as there were in Vietnam.

The war was initiated by the false pretenses of a warmonger (Dubya), because he needed to live up to daddy's image.

Answer 11

We still have a peace keeping force in that hell hole called Korea... 50 years after the fact. So, apparently we never cut and run.