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Then and now: there are great differences between Vietnam and Iraq, and there are certain similarities, and all must be weighed.(Cover Story)
VIETNAM! Vietnam! The mere mention of it still sends shudders through Americans--and for that very reason it is alluded to almost weekly in the columns of Maureen Dowd, Molly Ivins, Paul Krugman, et al. After all, Vietnam was purportedly our Sicilian expedition, with 58,000 American soldiers dead, $150 billion spent, a country torn apart in a decade of protest, and, at the end, defeat and the vow "never again" to send American ground troops to wars in far-off lands about which we know little. Yet here we are again with televised images of foreign irregulars toting RPGs and killing Americans while Europeans advise us to get out and avoid their all-too-familiar "colonial" ...
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