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Speaking to a receptive audience before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in August 2007, George W. Bush, for the first time in his presidency, drew an explicit parallel between the Iraq War and America’s entanglement in Vietnam. “Then as now,” the president declared, “people argued the real problem was America’s presence, and that if we would just withdraw, the killing would end.”His remarks set off a flurry of commentary among opponents of both wars. Any comparison between Vietnam and Iraq, in their telling, should conclude that entanglements in civil wars almost never work, predicted threats of disaster following an American withdrawal are always exaggerated, and notions of Islamofascism are just as far-fetched as earlier ideas of a worldwide Communist conspiracy.
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