Extending the Vietnam analogy

Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Max Boot finds that President Bush left the Vietnam analogy in his speech to the VFW this past Wednesday incomplete. Boot notes, however, that the president himself observed: “The tragedy of Vietnam is too large to be contained in one speech.” So Boot offers the president “some other parallels he might invoke” in the event that he returns to the subject

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