August 29, 2007

Iraq is not Vietnam is not Iraq

Despite what Christopher Hitchens has to say...there are parallels to Vietnam.

First link via India Uncut, where Amit writes: "Actually, there are such conflicting views of Iraq going around that it might also be true to say that Iraq is not Iraq. Such it is."

This argument is not new. Elsewhere, where I used to compile articles about Iraq, I had compiled the following articles in August 2005:

Frank Rich in a NY Times op-ed piece talks about the quagmire in Iraq - despite many many comparisons to Vietnam being tenuous at best, the situation, Rich writes, is in some ways like Vietnam on speed!

Once-upon-a-time leftist, Christopher Hitchens, who has arguably turned pro-Bush and become a right-winger since 9-11, weighs in on a recent NY Times article titled 'Flashback to the 60's: A Sinking Sensation of Parallels Between Iraq and Vietnam'.

And the Iraq war coverage also reminds John R. MacArthur of Vietnam. Rolling Stone article thinks it's beginning to look a lot like Vietnam.

Jules Witcover writes: "For all of the administration's insistence that its war in Iraq is not a rerun of Vietnam of 40 years ago, more signs are emerging that we're seeing, as eminent philosopher Yogi Berra once put it, 'deja vu all over again.'"

I find that the Hitchens response to the NYT article from August 2005 at Slate is not active. Here is another link that reproduces his opinion-piece.

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