Iraq like Viet Nam continued: the Left will continue to impress the American public with news of deaths, stories about widows and orphans, and attacks on our leadership. THAT is what they did in the Viet Nam era to create "Viet Nam". They lied about our successes there and focused on every negative. Viet Nam is an idea. An "idea" of American defeat. The "idea" is that America is wrong, bad, and must be defeated and "brought down to humility". The enemy of the Left is capitalism, they want to destroy the economic system of this country. As an exercise for yourself, point to ONE successful socialist country. Single industry countries don't count; Norway, Sweden, or "no industry" Denmark. Capitalism is the only system that has lifted people from poverty to prosperity. It is the hatred and envy of successful capitalists that fuels the Left. They hate successful individuals. Hate. It follows that they hate any society that lifts individuals. Their purpose is to bring the successful individual(s) down to the lowest level so that the people "on the bottom" will feel better about their own sloth, incompetence, and hate. A capitalist Iraq is to be feared as is a capitalist Afghanistan. The way to prevent this from happening is to convince America that "this is all another Viet Nam". It can only become one if we believe the fictions being spun by the press.