At the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, we stand in the same position relative to the initial invasion as America stood in 1985 relative to the 1965 arrival of our first combat troops in Vietnam.

The comparison between the Iraq and Vietnam Wars is a contentious and politically loaded one, and whether such a comparison is useful and relevant or baseless and inapplicable often seems to ...

President Bush’s speech comparing the U.S. commitment to Iraq to America’s historic withdrawal from the Vietnam war has, of course, special resonance here in Vietnam. I’ve lived in Vietnam ...

Fear was the main tool used to convince the public that it was essential for the U.S. to go to war in Iraq. The manufacturing of fear was evident in a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney in August ...

After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert.” Bush was ...

In his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 22, George Bush made this statement, “I stand before you as a wartime president. I wish I didn’t have to say that, but an enemy that attacked us ...

One of the convictions that animates these columns is that the American people, in their assembled glory, are far smarter than any of us individually. So when they do something like mount a review of ...

The question of how best to walk away from Iraq is on the minds of Americans. President Bush wants to hand more of the conflict to Iraqis; many of his opponents simply want out. Lessons learned from ...

These days, it's not terribly original to say that the Iraq war is like the Vietnam War. Many doves use the comparison lazily, invoking Vietnam to urge the United States to pull out. Like most ...