Re: The Iraq Situation Today

["Elisha Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

lp wrote:

> what will they have?  They will have what they had in the southern part of
> Viet Nam in 1960.  Of course the Iraqis are not guaranteed to have what the
> NLF had in the southern part of Viet
> Nam in 1960, but we have every right to hope.

Vietnam has been mentioned more than once in recent days. I just point
out the obvious:

South Vietnam was bordered by North Vietnam, connected by jungle
There is no North Iraq, and the space between Iraqi cities and any
place that might be "friendly", whether it's the mountains of Iraq,
Syria, or wherever, is desert.

Parallels with the West Bank and Gaza are certainly worth drawing.
Parallels with Vietnam are, it seems to me, not.


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