Why is Iraq and Vietnam so much alike?
954021
America stuck its neck out and got its head chopped off
783246
Where the hell was i when we went back to Vietnam?!?!?!\n Trying to compare the Vietnam war to OIF is outrageously stupid. We went to into Vietnam because the french treated the Vietnamese like crap. As soon as we showed up the french jumped ship and left us high and dry then protested us being there. We got out of Vietnam war in 73. 75 is when Saigon fell. big difference, anyways  i digress. OIF happenede ecause saddam had al-queada training camps there. had his son uday purchase chemical weapons from the french and dutch. which he later used on the kurds. to assume that the vietnam war and OIF are the same is just retarded. Sam the communists stoped there take over of asia in vietnam. Research a thing called the domino effect.
887875
I honestly believe, decades from now, people will look back on this war and declare it as one of the worst foreign policies of our century. Sadly, it seems to be a repeat of Vietnam but without the large scale protest.
347402
The Vietcong and Insurgents both used massive guerilla warfare.\n\nI'd say way more IEDs in the iraq war.\n\nthe vietnameese beat us with technology [SAMS, ak-47, etc]\nand knowledge of the land.\n\nThe insurgents are just using household products.
896611
THANK YOU!\ni hated the people in my history class last year that refused to believe that, and that history was pointless! you're so right about the fact that iraq is a completely the same as vietnam!
727126
Vietnam war was a resource war. We wanted to control the tin, rubber, manganese , the still undeveloped off-shore oil and the largest rice growing region (Mekong Delta) in the world. We poisoned the Delta before we left with Agent Orange and today there are so many deformed births that they are just quietly put down. Vietnam war was a whore just like Iraq.
335412
Thats a loaded question ;) \n\nI think that we now must stay and finish the reconstruction and occupation of Iraq to avoid a messy withdrawl that will lead to a power vacuum and civil war in the heart of the middle east. Regardless of how you feel about the war before hand, It's important to realize that a US defeat or withdrawl could have dramatic and long lasting negative effects on the US.\n\nThe Vietnam comparison doesn't hold too much water for two reasons, 1) The US withdrawl from South Vietnam was followed by the North overruning the South. This prevented a power struggle or civil war and was, ironically, able to provide some order to a chaotic situation. 2) A large component of the insurgency (An estimated 1/3 ) is now Al Qaeda, I'm not saying that they were there before I'm simply saying they are there now and are working to force an American withdrawl. They even boast about this on propoganda tapes. They are, unlike the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, an organization that is actively at war with the United States (was before the war in Iraq and will be after) and would like nothing better then to send a middle eastern nation into chaos so they can use it as a place to retrain, refurbish and catch their breath after losing a similiar base in Afghanistan that they had before the Taliban lost power.\n\nI personally think we need to establish a table for leaving Iraq based not on chronological deadlines (a poor plan that is inviting disaster the moment the deadline passes and US Troops leave) but instead on tangible results. Like for every 3 Iraqi Army Battalions to reach full operational ability we should withdrawl 1 US Battalion. \n\nThis avoids the dilemna of just saying "lets stay until we're through" which opens the door to a endless occupation but also makes success in Iraq a tangible thing that can be monitored and achieved in due time.
252941
I don't think you have got your facts quite straight on Vietnam. However, we are in a basic no win situation in Iraq until the people agree to solve their own issues. AlQeda will continue to surface wherever the US has interests to blame us for all the worlds problems. Iraq has 2 basic issues now, internal civil unrest and AlQeda based terrorist activities. We will have little effect over controlling either of them without support by the government of Iraq.\nThe parrallels between Iraq and Vietnam are that we have no firm exit strategy. When we do leave, it will not be a graceful exit. Removing Sadam was necessary and the succeeding government will have its problems internally and with Iran.\nUnderestimating the needs and desires of the Iraqi people and not understanding the Muslim culture will continue to be problematic for our government.\nI spent 2 years in Vietnam, in combat and am having the same emotions now that I had then, when our efforts went for naught.
1104788
The Americans had a reason to be in Vietnam, more or less, so people shouldn't have spat on 'em too much.  But Iraq?  No reason : so the locals have every reason to spit.  The poor GIs will just have to put up with it.  At least they have body armour - maybe face plates would be a good anti-spit precaution.
338232
Partner, according to your name you are or were a Seabee with the Navy?  If you served in Nam as I did than you know that Iraq is another Vietnam.  A "war" concocted by inept politicians whose only goal is to become more powerful at the expense of the lives of young men and women.  They declare their intentions and then when proven wrong they will not back down and continue this folly, we do not seem to learn from our mistakes.  Iraq is not turning into the next Vietnam it is the next Vietnam and in another 8 to 10 years we will be asking is _______ the next Iraq??\n\nYou probably have seen the quote that the definition of insanity is to repeat the same action and expect a different result, well that is what we are doing in Iraq.\n\nI certainly hope you and many others agree with me and will use the power of the vote to help clean up this country.
1066054
When america coerced the un to enter vietnam under the guise of atrocities commited by the north against the south. it was the south who tried to set up a puppet govt. When vietnam won indepenence from france it was only one country.Liberated by the communist regime.The usa could'nt coerce the un to invade iraq they went ahead anyway for some ulterior motive. Certainly not the stated reason In both wars it was absolute banditry they will be deafeted.No matter how strong you cannot break the will of the people
833500
about wars, specifically the Vietnam war.
1055753
This is the beginning of the drawdown. It will take a few years at least. Unlike Vietnam, we have never increased our numbers of troops in-country. We have made enormous strides but we need more Iraqis trained as soldiers and police before we can beging a major pull-out.
823808
Korea and Vietnam (although Vietnam reunified)
865280
Vietnam was a French colony until WWII when it was captured by the Japanese. The main resistance group which eventually saw off the Japanese without Allied help was the Viet-minh, led by Ho Chi Minh. France tried to regain control after the war but was finally defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The Viet-minh communists were prevented from taking over the whole country by US and French-backed forces. The country was partitioned into North (Communist) Vietnam and South (anti-Communist) Vietnam.\n\nThe people of the south had little sympathy for their foreign-controlled government and, according to Richard Nixon himself, 80% of them supported the Viet-cong who wanted to unite with the Communist North. After a protracted war of intervention the US withdrew, defeated, in the late 1970s.
990628
Iraq is the arabic word for Vietnam.
791609
Absolutely correct, buddy. Exactly the same as Vietnam, declare victory and then pull out. But there's still victory in Iran and North Korea, yet.