Posted by
amos dettonville on Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:11:09 PM
a little bit from media memos ... a bit more than a typical memo:
buckley
While
it is true that no historical event exactly replicates another, it is
certainly the case that what happened in Vietnam in 1972-1975 bears
very closely on the current situation in Iraq.
amos
of
course, buckley is correct on this count - maybe the time line goes a
bit further back - but one of the unspoken elements of the war in iraq
has always been the following of the very successful nixon plan of "the
vietnamization of the war." not all lessons learned from vietnam have
been only useful to the anti-war camp. certainly, the strategy of, "as
they stand up - we stand down" has been a direct lesson from this era
in time buckley has pointed out.
people fail to remember that the nixon plan was working.... read the rest by clicking the title:
peac4d.
amos dettonville
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