Iraq is no Vietnam ScrippsNews
If not Friedman, Barnett. Thomas Barnett does a great job of explaining how Iraq is not at all like Vietnam and then goes on to suggest how to speed the Iraqi conflict up. Retreat to northern Iraq; Saudi and Iran are forced into peace talks or the killing process is sped. Perhaps the later is a bit dramatic, but the U.S. is just slowing the process now and if we were to leave all together the region would destabilize even further. Americans may not realize what that means: a continued dependence on pricier middle eastern oil that funds destabilizing regimes.
