It's really not all that difficult to compare the two "wars":
Similarities:
1. American troops were/are involved. Obvious, right?
2. Both were/are unwinnable. Why? Because there's STILL no clear meaning to what "winning" might mean.
3. American troops did and will inevitably leave -- having not accomplished an elusive "goal."
4. I would have taken genuine "guts" for a President to say -- in either case -- were not gonna go there!
Differences:
1. Vietnam was a "war."
2. Afghanistan is NOT a "war." Why? Because there no state or nation involved other than the U.S. and there was no "declaration" of war according to the Constitution --no government to surrender to us.
3. With Vietnam, it was at least arguable that the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese were RIGHT. [No, maybe not in the way they conducted the war and treated their prisoners...but in their GOAL to unite -- or to preserve the unity of -- Vietnam.]
4. Al-Qaeda is not necessarily linked to Afghanistan. It is and HAS ALREADY been best and most effectively dealt with by POLICE action.
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