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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (9905)	4/13/2004 1:44:03 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Respond to of 173976

Blind in Baghdad By Richard Cohen Tuesday, April 13, 2004; Page A19 washingtonpost.com Here are the reasons Iraq is not Vietnam: It is a desert, not a jungle. The enemy is not protected and supplied by major powers such as the Soviet Union or China, not to mention a formidable front-line state such as North Vietnam. The Iraqis are not, like the Vietnamese, a single culture fighting a long-term war of liberation from colonial masters. They are fragmented by religion and language, and they have been independent ever since the British left lo these many years ago. In almost every way but one, Iraq is not Vietnam. Here's the one: We don't know what the hell we're doing. <more>