Iraq and Longing for Vietnam

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Article

Publication Date

2014

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"Americans want desperately for Iraq to be viewed as another Vietnam. On its face, this may seem a highly counterintuitive proposition. Why, one might ask, would a nation that lost more than 58,000 of its young men and women during a failed war in Southeast Asia desire a repeat performance in the Middle East?"

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This article was originally published in War on the Rocks in July 2014.

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