IRAQ = VIETNAM?

Selected & Various Views

Robert Kuttner, "War Protests, then and now," The Boston Globe, Oct. 24, 2002.

Rick Perlstein, "Goodbye to the Vietnam Syndrome," The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2002.

James Fox, "Hearts, Minds, and Bodybags," The Guardian, April 5, 2003.

George C. Wilson, "Iraq Is Not Vietnam," GovExec.com, April 15, 2003.

Craig R. Whitney, "Tunnel Vision: Watching Iraq, Seeing Vietnam," The New York Times, Nov. 9. 2003.

Max Boot, "The Lessons of a Quagmire," The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2003.

Niall Ferguson, "Imperialism and Running Dogs," Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2004. (PDF)

Senator Ted Kennedy, "Iraq has become George Bush's Vietnam" (Democracy Now, April 6, 2004)

David Greenberg, "Saigon and Saddam: The use and abuse of Vietnam analogies" (Slate.com, April 19, 2004)

Senator John McCain,

Christian G. Appy, "Faces of war: 35 years ago, revelations of American atrocities in Vietnam forced a moral reckoning at home. Will Abu Ghraib change the way we see the mission in Iraq -- and ourselves?" The Boston Globe, May 16, 2004

More to be added. Suggestions welcome: wjoseph@wellesley.edu