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...Iraqi people meant that after a war began, he could wait--sit in his impregnable underground German-engineered fortress and wait while the Americans trotted out images of the Vietnam quagmire and became increasingly disillusioned as the bodybags came home. Many said he could do just what Ho Chi Minh had done--wait for a win by default as the American people grew disgusted with the Gulf War. A ground war simply could not be the right answer...
...Then they started beaming all sorts of gory pictures back home where lots of people who had been watching game shows decided to begin protesting. The Peaceniks became so persistent that politicians were content to leave American soldiers in Vietnam without the means to finish their job. Ho Chi Minh could not have been more pleased about these media people, many of whom were Democrats anyway. A myth had been created...
...Miller is still on intimate terms with the war. "For years, I've slept with my left hand on my Bible and my right hand on my .45," he says. But the particular piece of tropical rain forest that Miller inhabits is a long way from the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Miller's base camp hunkers down on some hardscrabble red dirt several miles outside the village of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii. In touch and smell, as well as sight, it is the closest to Vietnam that one can get within the U.S. "I will never live...
...force, Congress and a vast majority of Americans. Moreover, Saddam's blatant disregard for civilians -- his initial holding of unwilling Western "guests," the torture and killing of unarmed Kuwaitis, his ongoing Scud attacks against civilian targets in Israel -- has ensured that he will not be lionized as Ho Chi Minh was during the Vietnam War. If anything, his brutality has strengthened allied public and official support for his elimination...
...that anti-war protestors are somehow disloyal and detrimental to the war effort. The lessons of Vietnam learned, anti-war protestors have taken great pains to avoid criticizing the troops in the field, partly out of tactical pragmatism and partly out of the absence of a heroic Ho Chi Minh...