22 August 2007
Iraq: Another Vietnam?
Shrub is now comparing Iraq to Vietnam. And here I thought that such comparisons were strictly forbidden by Patriot Act Provision A3X444A Article 4 Version 7 . I guess we're now on Version 8. During this short window of opportunity, I'd like to express my hearty agreement with his sentiment: Shrub's War and the Western Recolonization of Vietnam (otherwise know as the French Indo-China War or the Vietnam War) do bear some striking parallels--especially in terms of the uncanny stupidity and hubris of the politicians involved.
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Cars run on oil, not rice.
Yep. The analogy only stretches so far. Of course many of us only hope that Iraq could be "another Vietnam" where a coalition (anti-US or otherwise) takes power after US forces leave and manages to prevent massive civil war and bloodshed.
I am stunned by the tricks this administration keeps trying to pull out of its hat. Doublespeak, lies, misdirection. And through it all, an inability to even begin to understand history, let alone learn from it.
Yeah. The revised history of the Vietnam War as a righteous cause drives me crazy. There's an inability to face even the most basic facts.
Vietnam is the third-largest oil exporter in Southeast Asia. The oil wells off the coast of North Vietnam were producing at the start of the Vietnam war. They were blown out existence early on during the Vietnam War and could not be rebuilt until the cessation of sanctions in 1994, but now they're pumping again, and an oil field has been discovered off the coast of South Vietnam too.
Could keeping Vietnam's oil off the market have been a goal of the Vietnam War too?
- Badtux the Oily Penguin
It's entirely possible.
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