Quick bullets from this WaPo article by Robert Cohen:
Iraq is not Vietnam
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No united nationalist movement
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No charismatic leader
Iraq is Vietnam
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Confusing terrorism as a monolithic force a la communism
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Reliance on reconstruction stats for rosy picture
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US not fighting a united insurgency, Sunnis and others share goals but not vision
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Reliance on foggy stats: number of Iraqi voters, other countries involved, money spent
Don’t forget high desertion rates and high suicide rates for soldiers.
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