Senator Kennedy Is Incorrect

Ted Kennedy asserted in an interview with the Washington Post that Iraq "is clearly George Bush's Vietnam."

No, it's not so clear. With Vietnam, we're talking about a country and a people from that country, so we can, to a reasonable extent, put parameters around that war.

With Iraq, we're talking about the people of Iraq, other countries with high Muslim populations, and scattered groups around the world who take offense at the invasion.

Oh, it's like Vietnam in that the best Bush can do is claim victory that does not exist and then sugar it over through his propagandists that everything went swimmingly well, all things considered. And a lot of people will buy into that, hook, line, and sinker. But given that his enemies are spread out world wide, it is hard to set parameters on where to find them and how to address them.

And there is no Vietnam equivalent to Osama bin Laden who wasn't even working with Saddam, but was responsible in creating the 9/11 disaster.

The war in Vietnam's shelf life will be nothing compared to this.