Vietnam is Just Another Iraq
Having criticized John Kerry for not allowing the Vietnam Human Rights Act to come to the floor of the Senate, and then myself having been taken to task(see: no more excuses item) when last year's Republican congress failed to put a new version to a vote, it was nice to see this article today on Opinion Journal.
In a twist on the (seemingly former) conventional wisdom that 'Iraq is another Vietnam' (i.e. quagmire for the US), a dissident just out of a Vietnamese prison comments on current events:
Dr. Que does not have access to the daily diet of news that feeds the free world. But given the feats of modern technology to spread information, he knows enough about what is now happening in the Middle East so that he wished to share his views on how America's intervention in Iraq is like the war in Vietnam, and how it isn't. The similarity, he says, "is the same fighting spirit for freedom." The difference, he adds, is that in the fight for freedom, the side America is on "will triumph this time."
