The long shadow of Vietnam

[dipsydoodle]

More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the Veterans' Memorial in Washington DC remains a place of pilgrimage and remembrance
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This compares with some 4,000 combat deaths in Iraq.

But, inevitably, comparisons are being made between the two conflicts.
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There is the sense of a war entered into under false pretences.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7109929.stm

[unhappycamper]

1. It's difficult to win civil wars for others.

It's even more difficult if you create and then perpetuate the civil war.