Many people have made the claim that Iraq is the new Vietnam. I have taken an interest in this idea, because this semester I am taking a class titled, The Vietnam War. My teacher, Dr. Robert Thomes, has compared Vietnam to Iraq a few times. I have a few comments and ideas about this topic.
In both situations, the US has had superior technology and resources, yet fighting a counter-insurgency again guerillas who are a part of the general population is very difficult. In both situation, US troops were and are being killed and injured on day at a time, week by week, month by month. In both situations, the US leaders had grand global strategies when entering the country the most obvious being promoting democracy. In both situations, civilians have paid a heavy price because of the combat. In both situations, the decision to go to war came from think thank intellectuals, most of whom lacked war experience. Both situations have divided our country to the greatest extent.
I am going to look into the differences and post a journal at a later time.
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Maggie,
I see a little more action here this week, but you're still way behind. This is a good post here, and and it would be good to see more that take on social or personal issues with this kind of energy and focused attention.
Remember: Unless an act is the outcome of an inner necessity it is not creative. If it is not creative it cannot educate. In the degree that we express ourselves creatively, in that degree we live. In the degree that an individual does not reveal oneself in one's daily life, in that measure one exists as a material thing and in no way fulfills one's destiny as a self-conscious being, self-determining, self-directing and self-revealing.
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