Iraq And The Lessons Of Vietnam

Bill Moyers Journal
May 11, 2007
"If Vietnam was Korea in slow motion, then Operation Iraqi Freedom is Vietnam on crack cocaine. In less then two weeks a 30 year old vocabulary is back: credibility gap, seek and destroy, hard to tell friend from foe, civilian interference in military affairs, the dominance of domestic politics, winning, or more often, losing hearts and minds." --Marilyn B. Young

Those words are from a presentation made by Marilyn B. Young to the Organization of American Historians' roundtable "Historians Reflect on the War in Iraq" which took place in early April, 2003, just weeks after the start of the Iraq conflict. Now, five years on, Professor Young continues her analysis, serving as editor and contributer to two collections of essays on current U.S. foreign policy, The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past.

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