How Republicans win if we lose in Iraq
Rosa Brooks – LA Times
Bush and the GOP are shifting tactics just like Nixon did with Vietnam — to win the next election, not the war.
January 12, 2007
IF YOU THINK the growing similarity between Iraq and Vietnam is tragic but inadvertent, you’re not being cynical enough.
During the first years of the Iraq war, any resemblance to Vietnam was the result of the Bush administration’s disastrous miscalculations. But today, the Iraq war is looking more and more like the Vietnam War because that’s exactly what suits the White House.
