1. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
(News/World News)

...many suggestions among media and military analysts since 2003 of possible parallels between the war in Iraq and the United States imbroglio in Vietnam that ended so humiliatingly in 1975. The argum...

2. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
(News/World News)

...ical strategy at home is an implicit if unintended admission of the failure of his military strategy in Iraq and toward terrorism generally. Betrayal is his theme, delivered in his speeches, embroider...