[Dean's World] Dave Price: AP Self-Parody

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Posted by Dave Price:
AP Self-Parody
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1148761487.shtml


   You just can't make [1]this stuff up.
   Analysis: Iraq, Vietnam have parallels

     BAGHDAD, Iraq - The silhouettes that roar through the Baghdad
     twilight are sleeker than the helicopters of an earlier time. The
     wind brings dust, not drenching monsoons. The river snaking seaward
     is called Tigris, not Mekong. And this war's not fought to the wail
     of Jimi Hendrix's guitar.

   And there's not a regime in one half of the country trying to invade
   and conquer our half of the country and thus it's not likely we're
   going to abandon the country to be invaded and conquered by such a
   regime, and there's no militarily sigificant resistance, and the head
   of the enemy regime is in prison and on trial... but other than that?
   Very similar.
   Oh, and this around we have milbloggers to debunk MSM lies, such as
   the Tet Offensive being a defeat for the U.S. So, there's that
   difference.
   Whenever I see this kind of silliness, I always wonder if South
   Vietnamese ever look at the radiant thriving Asian jewel of freedom
   and prosperity that is South Korea, and think "What if?"

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=4&u=/ap/20060526/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_vietnam_shadows_lh1_1