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Let's Use Our Best Weapon Against Iran:
December 20, 2006 |
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Why do we never learn? Why can't we learn anything from our experience in Vietnam? In Vietnam, we saw what we did wrong, but even more importantly, what we did right.
It turns out invading a country that isn't a real military threat to you and trying to suppress a hostile local insurgency is not the right way to go. Who could have seen that coming? Color me surprised.
But ultimately, we're winning in Vietnam. President Bush was in Vietnam recently talking about how much progress they're making. Not the kind of progress we're making in Iraq, real progress.
Why is Vietnam friendlier to us now? Why are they not a threat to their neighbors or to world peace? Why are they a trading partner? One word...
Cenk Uygur hosts the Young Turks.
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