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[i]This has virtually no comparison to Vietnam. We never went to SE Asia to win. When you set up areas like the 38th parallel to allow the enemy to retreat and regroup, you set yourself up for failure. We are NOT bogged down in Iraq. We are trying to do something that has never been done before by anyone. Exit strategy is hard, especially when you want the indigenous people to reclaim their land. This is not a "war of attrition" like vietnam, we are trying to win and succeeding. We are not "begging" the UN for help, we are allowing them to take part if they want, under our rules, if we turned it over to the UN, it would THEN become an "unwinnable quagmire". [/B]
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The 38th parallel is in Korea and not Vietnam. I think your refusals to see the parallels between vietnam and iraq are based on your lack of knowlege of US military interventions in that part of the world.
The only things korea and vietnam had in common was that they were both cases where the US, Russia and China interfered in the internal affairs of asian nations.
While the other side has its propaganda for empire buiding, US citizens were led to believe it was supposedly for the purpose of saving the world from the evils that spread forth from communist revolution.
Now the bogey man of communism has been replaced with the bogey man of religious extremists. The one thing that remains the same is that powerful forces benefit from wars the wars they promote while humanity in general suffers.