KANSAS CITY, MO. — Critics of the war in Iraq who compare the conflict to Vietnam have the analogy backward, President Bush plans to tell veterans in a speech today. In what the White House is billing ...

President Bush’s speech comparing the U.S. commitment to Iraq to America’s historic withdrawal from the Vietnam war has, of course, special resonance here in Vietnam. I’ve lived in Vietnam since 2001 ...

As the global war on terrorism enters its fifth year and American troops continue to fight and die abroad, there is a growing tendency to frame the dis­cussion about troop deployments in the context ...

Washington has a bad habit of viewing things elsewhere in the world only through the prism of American experience, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the recent comparisons of Iraq and Vietnam.

While Iraq isn’t Vietnam, America is still America, and comparing U.S. involvement in the two countries provides interesting results. This just in: Six U.S. soldiers were killed and four injured ...

Certainly, as in Vietnam, we can look forward to withdrawal strategies that don’t actually involve leaving Iraq. In Vietnam, “withdrawal” involved endless departure-like maneuvers that only ...

2006-11-18 04:00:00 PDT Hanoi-- Amid powerful reminders of an unpopular war that bedeviled his predecessors, President Bush landed in Vietnam on Friday, embracing the former U.S. enemy as a symbol of ...

President Bush thinks the Vietnam analogy for Iraq is wrong. Aside from the predictability of this (it's understandable that he doesn't like his policy called a "quagmire"), the president's reasoning ...

Soldiers have long been subjected to invidious generational comparison. It’s a military rite of passage for new recruits to hear from old hands that everything from boot camp to combat was tougher ...

Paul Whitefield proposes that men from the Vietnam War era be sent to Iraq, but he focuses on the wrong group. Send those who escaped the draft through deferrals. The first to go: those who never ...

The most impressive thing about Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (PublicAffairs, $24) is that Robert K. Brigham doesn't treat the title's question rhetorically. In this readable book, he emphasizes the ...

And are the good times really over for good? I wonder, though: Is it possible that the insights of an eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish novelist-poet and a twentieth-century American singer-songwriter, ...