I heard some retired General or such on NPR on the drive home giving the Pentagon spin on why "Haditha isn't Mai Lai" He claims that we learned from Vietnam. Hardly.
If we had learned from Vietnam, there would have been mass resignations at the command level at the hint of invading Iraq.
With a few brave exceptions, there weren't.
From the very beginning, hell from before the beginning, it was clear that although comparisons to Vietnam were being roundly rejected by the planners and pundits, one dynamic would be identical.
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