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The Vietnam analogy is just in bad taste and does not add much to the article.
by ThinkBeat 9y ago
The Vietnam analogy is just in bad taste
and does not add much to the article.
- chazzeromus 9y agoAgreed, especially when it's around 1/3 of the article.
- averagewall 9y agoWe're trained not to compare things to the holocaust because it's in bad taste. Somehow lessons of how to treat other people don't translate from case to case. Us soldiers in Vietnam were supposed to be bad people doing inhumane things but US soldiers in Iraq somehow aren't. History keeps repeating and even though we remember it, we always think this time is special.
- ido 9y agoI'm most often hearing about the Iraq war in terms of "bad things <coalition forces> did". Not sure where you get the positive-sounding perspective (the most positive thing I ever hear is "Saddam was even worse").
- jorgec 9y agoSatan Hussein. He was considered even worst than Hitler and soldiers carried freedom to Iraq, how the army was called? freedom coalition force). It was the opposite.
- lph 9y agoYeah, no kidding. It was distracting and a low-grade insult to those who endured the real Vietnam war. Maybe it sounded better in 2006... Trump fatigue has really dampened my sense of humor.