bgates, Diego, looks like we won’t have agreement here. History will be the judge.
Diego I agree with you. I was just watching Meet the Press with Vali Nasr and General Barry McCaffrey and it looks like the prognostic for Iraq is not bright. It’s interesting that McCaffrey was a Vietnam and Iraq Hawk but he’s learned for the mistakes and he now says that “the Iraq war could break the United States Army”
While the preponderance of historians have pretty much decided that the Vietnam War was a terrible catastrophe, I would guess that hawks such as bgates would continue to argue that it was a worthwhile cause that was tactically won but lost politically because of wimps like us.
If only custumers would buy Ford cars American manufacturing will be strong. If only people continue to buy real estate, we’ll all be rich.
I’m afraid that Iraq will sufer the same fate as Vietnam. Some people will never learn.
