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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (63699)5/7/2008 4:57:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542233
 
In Vietnam we managed to make the local insurgency situation less than a vital threat to the government in the South.

The vital threat they did face was convention invasion from the North. That's the threat that did them in, armored divisions and such not guerrilla groups. Continued support of the government in the South, combined with air support being on call to respond to any massive invasion attempt, could have kept South Vietnam intact without any need for a massive or very active American presence in Vietnam.

If we can be as successful against the insurgency in Iraq as we where against the insurgency in South Vietnam, than we would have even less of a need for an in country presence of any serious size, because there is no "North Iraq". Well I suppose Iran could play that role, but I suspect they don't want open full scale warfare, at least not if the US doesn't totally wash its hand of Iraq, and pass legislation forbidding the funding of any military activities in or to protect Iraq.
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