It seems that nothing can stop the high-speed replay of Vietnam that we call the Iraq war. We are now getting the "surge" escalation that parallels the Westmoreland escalation up to 500,000 troops in Vietnam. Next, we can expect the final desperate Nixonian aggression to salvage "victory" from a doomed neo-colonial war. This will take the form of the spilling over of the war into an adjacent country.
The NeoCons have already said that Bush's difficulties result from not fighting the war on a "broad enough canvas," and they are urging Bush to attack Syria and Iraq. This means the equivalent of the bombing, and resulting destruction, of Cambodia is about to take place. The only question is if the parallel to Cambodia will be Syria or Iran (or both).
We are all watching, helplessly, as an insane President and his insane advisors deliberately replay Vietnam to prove that the United States cannot lose a neo-colonial war. They are willing to kill millions of people to demonstrate that the United States is an invincible imperial power. As we enter 2007, the year is really 1969. We have learned nothing, and our war machine rolls on, bringing ruin to all.