Bush’s Vietnam Faux Pas
President Bush’s recent speech to the convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars has left many of us dumbfounded, astounded, and embarrassed. His poorly conceived interpretation of recent American military history with his particular comparison of Vietnam and Iraq has alarmed critics on the left and right alike.
Here is one critique I have found particularly enlightening by Christopher Hitchins over at the Guardian in the UK. Please feel free to suggest others of your own… or criticisms of my criticism. ;-)
Read the exerpt below and follow the link to read the rest if you find it interesting…
However that may be, I always agreed with him on one secular question, that the regime of Saddam Hussein was long overdue for removal. I know some critics of the Iraq intervention attribute this policy, too, to religious motives (ranging from messianic, born-again Christian piety to the activity of a surreptitious Jewish/Zionist cabal: take your pick).
In this real-world argument, there is a very strong temptation for opponents of the war to invoke the lessons of Vietnam. I must have written thousands of words attempting to show that there is absolutely no analogy between the two conflicts.
Then, addressing the convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars last week, the President came thundering down the pike to announce that a defeat in Iraq would be - guess what? - another Vietnam. As my hand smacks my brow, and as I ask myself not for the first time if Mr Bush suffers from some sort of political death wish, I quickly restate the reasons why he is wrong to join with his most venomous and ignorant critics in making this case.
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