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Is Iraq Another Vietnam?
by Robert K. Brigham
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• Clear, detailed comparison and analysis
  This is the kind of book that gets assigned in political science classes at our universities. It is reasonable and reasoned. Its author, Robert K. Brigham, is a professor of history and international relations at Vassar College and an acknowledged expert on the Vietnam War. Consequently, he is in a good position to compare and contrast that war with the current one.
  The war in Iraq differs from that in Vietnam in many important respects; nonetheless there are also similarities, is perhaps a good... more info

• A good comparison.
  The author compares the Iraq war and the Vietnam War. He looks at differences and similarities between the two. And I think that Brigham has done a good job in pulling forth valid, good and even important examples of differences and similarities.
  If you're interested in American foreign politics, or interested in either of these two wars (facts, strategies, problems, who's fighting who etc.) then it is a very interesting read.
  

• Imprecise echoes of the Vietnam War
  On the day after coalition troops liberated the Kuwaitis from Saddam Hussein's reign, President George H.W. Bush promptly declared in front of a joint session of Congress, "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam Syndrome." He was about as precise as President George W. Bush's speech after his aircraft-carrier landing, with the infamous "Mission Accomplished" sign as a backdrop.
  Is Iraq another Vietnam? The question is the title of a new volume by Robert K. Brigham, a history professor at Vassar College who... more info

• Too much is missing to be a very good analysis of the situaution
  Like the fact that Saddam committed genocide attempts in his mass murder of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980's (during his Anfal campaign). Brigham mentions Saddam's invasion of Kuwait distinctly enough but that was one of Saddam's secondary crimes compared to his dreaded Anfal Campaign.

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