On the third anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq, I have been thinking again about the parallels between this war and the Vietnam War. "Iraq is not Vietnam but...."
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I think the parallels are obvious but the one big difference is ironic. During the Vietnam war, the goverment kept trying to argue that it was a civil war between to distinct parts of Vietnam South Vietnam and North Vietnam while the anti-war movement was explaining that it was an indigeneous resistance by Vietnamese Nationalists against the American Occupation. Now in Iraq the goverment is now trying to insist we are fighting against the remnents of the resistance to the new goverment by the old baathists, and that there is not a civil war going on between the Shiites and the Sunnis.
There really is a civil war going on, but I keep wondering why do we care whether or not the Shiites control the entire country.
I can understand the Iranian Shiites caring, but under the theory that the friend of my enemy is my enemy we should be supporting the Sunni if anyone.
So what's really going on ?