Not even vaguely analogous. Totally different reasons for being there ( I was working for the government in the area at the time and was part of the a community which was very much against U.S. policy there ) But there is no analogy to Iraq, just as it was a mistake for American policy makers to think Vietnam was Korea or WWII.
I don't know what 'you had your chance' means, but the simplistic look at something so complex gives me some insight as to why you find Michael Moore compelling <g>
>Charles:
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>Well you had your chance in Viet Nam. Now you have your chance in Iraq.
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>Keep us posted on your progress.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
