Why Irtaq is not like Vietnam
Austin Bay says that if Vietnam was like Iraq "the United States would have occupied Hanoi, killed or dispersed the Politburo and utterly destroyed the North Vietnamese Army. Laos and Cambodia would not have served as sanctuaries for communist troops and supplies. (Syria understands this difference.) Southerners from Saigon would be part of a new national council in the process of drawing up a democratic constitution."
"...Saddam's Baathists lack a sustaining sea of support -- they operate from a few isolated ponds of Baath-Sunni holdouts (like Fallujah). The men who kill Americans for cash are pond scum, not soldiers in a wider people's war. In time, they will be isolated and captured -- or, if they fight, they'll be slain, just like the 101st Airborne killed Uday and Qusay. As for outside jihadis coming to wage holy war, bring 'em on. The United States has the military instruments in place to kill them over there, instead of over here."
Austin Bay says that if Vietnam was like Iraq "the United States would have occupied Hanoi, killed or dispersed the Politburo and utterly destroyed the North Vietnamese Army. Laos and Cambodia would not have served as sanctuaries for communist troops and supplies. (Syria understands this difference.) Southerners from Saigon would be part of a new national council in the process of drawing up a democratic constitution."
"...Saddam's Baathists lack a sustaining sea of support -- they operate from a few isolated ponds of Baath-Sunni holdouts (like Fallujah). The men who kill Americans for cash are pond scum, not soldiers in a wider people's war. In time, they will be isolated and captured -- or, if they fight, they'll be slain, just like the 101st Airborne killed Uday and Qusay. As for outside jihadis coming to wage holy war, bring 'em on. The United States has the military instruments in place to kill them over there, instead of over here."
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