Iraq Isn't Like Vietnam -- Except When It Is

[Culpeper]

Culpeper:

I agree with you and Steve. Another institutional response I fear will be repeated was the unshakable determination to ignore the killing and the dying after we left.

That is my biggest fear right now. That Congress will, in effect, create a massacre by trying to run the war from within D.C. This sort of massacre happened after Vietnam. It happened after the Gulf War. And will surely happen in Iraq.

Eagle:

I've never looked at the Southeast Asia conflict in that manner but you're correct. Most people didn't see that reform in neighboring regions during that period. Maybe we can't see this happening in much the same way in the Middle East. Too focused on the fighting in the present. I mean Libya changed her tune real quick. Syria is nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof. Iran is on the brink of some sort of change, and so forth.