The U.S. is NOT making the same mistakes in Afghanistan that it made in Vietnam.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The U.S. is going out of its way to make new and more modern mistakes.
On Wednesday, 9 December, BBC News reported that General Stanley McChrystal told Congress:
"I don't think that we can finally defeat al-Qaeda until he's (Osama bin Laden) captured or killed."
"Doing some fancy mouthwork he went on to say that killing or capturing Bin Laden would not spell the end of al-Qaeda, but that the movement could not be eradicated while Bin Laden remained at large." (BBC quote)
Link to the report can be found here.
How times change. Imagine the lambasting General William Westmoreland would have received if he had suggested the Vietnam War could not be won without killing Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh died in 1969. The war raged on for half a decade.
Additionally, remember the Galilean Herald-Tribune's headline in 30 AD
Pontius Pilate Squelches Christianity With Seditious Jesus' Elimination
Maybe the U.S. isn't making a modern mistake at all.
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