I saw Fog of War for the first time tonight [View All]

[ginnyinWI]

Talk about deja vu! The invasion of Iraq is so much like Vietnam. Maybe not so much how we got into war this time compared to that time, which was by degrees, but the way it dragged on and on, with politicians assuring the people with the same catch phrases: we had to defend Vietnam against "tyranny", and we had to win "hearts and minds", and how we were defending ourselves to keep our freedom (huh? our country was in no danger from the VC!) And so it goes. People kill people--it's what they do when they are afraid. And when something isn't working, they just pitch in and do the same thing, only harder.