Double Reverse With a Twist: Iraq and Vietnam by John Isaacs It happened in Vietnam and it is happening again in Iraq. For a second time. The Vietnam War should have taught us that a large foreign military force can transform a genuine problem into something worse. Yet we repeated that disastrous error in Iraq […]
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The End is in Sight
by John Isaacs [contact information] Published in the Guardian UK on December 2, 2008 The security agreement signed by the United States and Iraq and approved by the Iraqi parliament last week marks the beginning of the end of the American occupation. It is about time. For more than six years, this war has undermined […]