Parallels between Iraq and Vietnam

Interesting article about American intervention and the risks associated with entering and exiting different conflicts.

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Bush - in a 2007 speech

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Well, America did leave. And President Bush went on to say that whatever you might think about how America got into that war, “one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people,’ ‘re-education camps,’ and ‘killing fields.’ ”

and in Iraq today

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In April 2006, Mr. Kerry marked the anniversary of his Senate appearance with a speech at Boston’s Faneuil Hall in which he declared that the “war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq are now converging in too many tragic aspects”—and that the U.S. needed to withdraw all combat troops. Today Mr. Kerry is secretary of state. The president he serves did as Mr. Kerry wished and withdrew U.S. combat troops from Iraq. What have been the results? The rise of Islamic State, or ISIS, beheading and burning alive all those in its path. A raging civil war in Syria that is becoming a proxy for the larger Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict. And a sense by our closest allies across the Middle East that America has left them on their own.

I see parallels between Iraq and Vietnam call me crazy if you will

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