December 23, 2024
Letter

Comments for: The lesson of Vietnam

In the recent aborted assault on Shiite militias directed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, 1,000 Iraqi policemen and soldiers, including scores of officers and commanders, refused to fight. Certainly this is not the first time the Iraqi military has proved undependable. These desertions recall Vietnam. There, too, the… Read More

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