That there is widespread pessisism about Iraq is true enough; that it is based in large part on bogus reading of the Vietnam War is also true. But what is even more true is that this pessimism is based not on legitimate concern about the course of US effort to stop outside (and inside) sedition against Iraq's newborn democracy, but by a general desire that the US not succeed; that Democratic critics of the war simply don't was us to succeed is shown by the confusing and frequently contradictory nature of their criticisms. Supposedly we're an international pariah and have somehow been ruined by liberating Iraq; how this squares with reality is never explained.
But then it's always been that way - Democrats opposed US effort to stop Soviet-backed sedition in Vietnam and in Central America; they succeeding in sabotaging victory in Indochina but were notably unsuccessful in Central America. When Democrats will finally get it that they ought to support US victory remains a mystery.
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