Iraq & Vietnam

Optimism and War
By MARK MOYAR | September 18, 2007
The latest comparison between Vietnam and Iraq goes like this: David Petraeus is another William Westmoreland, another general who spoke optimistically about a doomed war in order to serve the president's political purposes. Similar lines have also...

Withdrawal Recalled
By MARK STEYN | August 27, 2007
George W. Bush gave a speech about Iraq last week, and in the middle of it he did something long overdue: He attempted to appropriate the left's most treasured all-purpose historical analogy. Indeed, Vietnam is so ubiquitous in the fulminations of...

The Asian Example
Editorial of The New York Sun | August 23, 2007
No sooner had President Bush issued an advance of his remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on the topic of Iraq and Vietnam than the big Democratic Party foghorns went into attack mode. The president, speaking at Kansas City, said, "One...

Ghosts of Vietnam
By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. | June 4, 2007
While it is true that no historical event exactly replicates another, it is certainly the case that what happened in Vietnam in 1972-1975 bears very closely on the current situation in Iraq. To truncate the story drastically, what happened back then...

Timeline of Defeat
Editorial of The New York Sun | May 24, 2007
Here's a pop quiz about Vietnam. When the 94th United States Congress finally pulled the plug on American support, how many of our GIs were still fighting in Vietnam? The question was posed to us the other evening by Secretary of State Kissinger, full...

Free Le Quoc Quan
Editorial of The New York Sun | April 20, 2007
When Senator McCain signs a letter along with Vin Weber, who is a top policy adviser to Mr. McCain's rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, it is worth paying attention to, especially when the letter is also signed by President...

‘Relentless'
Editorial of The New York Sun | February 22, 2007
"There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment . . . just like in the days of Vietnam. The pressure will mount, the president will find he has no strategy, he will have to change his strategy, and the vast majority of our troops...

Kerry Without Tears
Editorial of The New York Sun | January 25, 2007
Senator Kerry had to choke back tears as he announced, on the floor of the Senate, the end of his long quest for the presidency, but our own eyes are dry. His career, by our lights, has been one of the most disgraceful of his generation. It was begun,...

1970 and Now
Editorial of The New York Sun | January 15, 2007
It is President Bush's decision to interdict support for the Iraq insurgency coming from Syria and Iran that is, in our estimation, likely to be the focus of the showdown with the Democrats in the Congress. This is particularly true because the...

The Price of Freeing the Oppressed
By SETH GITELL | November 21, 2006
On late Friday afternoon, with President Bush arriving in Hanoi for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, news broke of a casualty in Iraq. His name was Tung Nguyen, 38, a sergeant first class, and a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces....

The Iraq Oversight
Editorial of The New York Sun | November 14, 2006
With the incoming Democratic speaker, Nancy Pelosi, backing Rep. John "Redeploy From Iraq to Okinawa" Murtha to be House majority leader, evidence is growing that the Democrats are going to try to address the Battle of Iraq earlier rather than later...

1975 and 2007
By SETH LIPSKY | November 10, 2006
One of the first calls I made after the Democrats swept into power in the Congress was to Abner Mikva. He is one of the great honest liberals, a man I admire though on many things I don't agree with him. When he was White House counsel to President...

Stuck In the 1960s With Democrats
By MICHAEL BARONE | November 6, 2006
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Those two sentences, spoken by John Kerry last week, tell a lot about...

What If We Left?
By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. | August 30, 2006
The wires are heavy with the question of Iraq. The defeat of Senator Lieberman in the Democratic primary in Connecticut was a call to outright defiance by Democrats running for re-election. They have been warned now, by the unforgiving, that they must...