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Abstract
The following is the Introduction from a published collection of articles edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young, Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past (New York and London: The New Press, 2007. 322pp. 978-1-59558-149-5). The book's Table of Contents appears on p. 486 below.
The specter of Vietnam has been buried forever in the desert sands of the Arabian Peninsula. — George H.W. Bush, 1991
Notes
1. Editorial, “The Sound of One Domino Falling,” New York Times, 4 August 2006.
2. Mark Silva, “No ‘Amen Chorus’ for Bush,” Chicago Tribune, 14 August 2006. Available online at http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.corn/newsJheswamp/2006/08/ no_amen_chorus_.html.
3. Thomas Friedman, “Big Talk, Little Will,” New York Times, 16 August 2006.
4. Joffe Citation2006, 100.
5. Kissinger Citation1979, 56–57.
6. Johnson Citation2003.
7. Jim Rutenberg and Megan C. Thee, “Poll Shows Growing Skepticism in U.S. over Peace in the Middle East,” New York Times, 27 July 2006.
8. “Notes on an Interview with Walter Lippman,” Henry Brandon Papers, Library of Congress, box 59, folder 3.
9. Meyer Citation2003, 21.
10. Memorandum, “Implications of an Unfavorable Outcome in Vietnam,” 11 September 1967, p. 33, in McNamara with VanDeMark Citation1996, 292–93.
11. Young Citation1991, 135.
12. Michael Hirsh, “End of Days?” Newsweek, Web-exclusive commentary, MSNBC. com. 31 July 2006.
13. Phillips Citation2006.
14. John M. Broder, “Bush Calls Attack on Qana ‘Awful,’ but Refrains from Calling for Immediate Cease-Fire,” New York Times, 1 August 2006. Emphasis added.
15. It is interesting to note, nevertheless, that the media still occasionally call American soldiers “GIs,” short for “general inductees,” thereby helping a very needy administration perpetuate the myth of the Iraq War as simply another phase of the World War II struggle in Europe and Asia.
16. David S. Cloud, “Rumsfeld, in Tajikistan, Urges Tough Stand Against Taliban,” New York Times, 11 July 2006.
17. Paul von Zielbauer and David S. Cloud, “General Sees Need for More U.S. Forces in Baghdad,” New York Times,12 July 2006; Associated Press, “Iraqi Gunmen Kill 41 in Attack on Market,” International Herald Tribune, 17 July 2006.
18. “Press Availability with Secretary Rumsfeld at the Pentagon,” 25 July 2006, http:// 155.7.40.210/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=3054.
19. Edward Wong and Damien Cave, “July Deadliest Month in Iraq,” New York Times, 15 August 2006.
20. ‘Putin Rejects Bush's Iraq Democracy Model,” CNN.com. 15 July 2006.