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http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hutchison/061021

Excerpt:

Issues analysis
Vietnam deceptions live on
Liberal armchair generals are still fighting the last war

October 21, 2006
Fred Hutchison
RenewAmerica analyst

The tendency of generals to re-fight the last war has been a recurring phenomenon since Carl Von Clausewitz wrote about it in his book On War (published 1832). Sometimes intellectuals who play armchair general make the same mistake. Liberals seem to be caught in a repeating time loop based on a fixation with Vietnam. Many liberals who oppose the Iraqi War are using some of the same arguments that they or their fathers used in opposing the Vietnam War.

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Sometimes intellectuals who play armchair general make the same mistake. Liberals seem to be caught in a repeating time loop based on a fixation with Vietnam. Many liberals who oppose the Iraqi War are using some of the same arguments that they or their fathers used in opposing the Vietnam War.

Thanks! That is exactly so. I hope to help him with a reasoned. sourced rebuttal. That link helps.