The lessons of Vietnam.(Letter to the editor)

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: October 25, 2006 | Copyright information

SINCE George Bush related American casualties in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive, comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam have come thick and fast. But if America had exerted itself even half as much in Iraq as it did in Vietnam, the chances are Iraq would be stable by now.

The US struggled in Vietnam for 14 years before its final defeat. It faced a tightly disciplined, politically unified national liberation movement. By contrast while the insurgency in Iraq is a mixture of brigandage, sectarian strife and jihadists whose de facto measure of success is their impact on the media.

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