>I've seen this movie before. However clichéd it
>may be to compare Iraq to Vietnam, the fact is
>that the US *is* acting out its fantasies of
>power in Iraq in the same way it did in Vietnam,
>and once again it is getting its tuchus handed
>to it. Unfortunately, the US didn't learn any
>lesson 30 years ago and doesn't seem likely to
>learn any this time either.
But Vietnam was left a wreck for 30 years, and about the only subsequent revolution in the Third World was in Nicaragua, which was crushed.
Doug