Is Iraq Vietnam on Crack Cocaine?
Commentary: The hawks and neocons who first started us off in Iraq have essentially created their own worst nightmare.
By Tom Engelhardt
August 25, 2005
In the Garden of ArmageddonThey were Iraq's only real WMDs. The U.S. refused to secure them. Now Saddam's nuclear and bioweapons scientists are dispersed and more dangerous than ever.
On the April day in 2003 when American troops first entered Baghdad, historian Marilyn Young suggested that Operation Iraqi Freedom was "Vietnam on crack cocaine." She wrote presciently at the time:
"In less then two weeks a 30 year old vocabulary is back: credibility gap, seek and destroy, hard to tell friend from foe, civilian interference in military affairs, the dominance of domestic politics, winning, or more often, losing hearts and minds."
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