Iraq Is(n't) Vietnam

Quick bullets from this WaPo article by Robert Cohen:

Iraq is not Vietnam

• No united nationalist movement
• No charismatic leader

Iraq is Vietnam

• Confusing terrorism as a monolithic force a la communism
• Reliance on reconstruction stats for rosy picture
• US not fighting a united insurgency, Sunnis and others share goals but not vision
• 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.