@ibstubro Great point, but the thing that has not changed and which makes Vietnam so very relevant to the current situation in Iraq, is that both situations are the direct result of misreadings on the part of an inexcusably myopic United States. To this date, there are still Americans who do not understand that the conflict in Vietnam was NOT about communism, but the unification of the country. Our shortsighted invasion of Iraq was promulgated on assumptions only possible because of a profound ignorance of the place and its history. THIS is the feature which both episodes have in common