The Vietnam Syndrome (CM)

Bret Stephens writes:

This is another Vietnam legacy. Beyond the purely pragmatic argument that the war in Southeast Asia was unwinnable, there was also a sense among opponents of the war that defeat would, in some deep way, be balm for America's soul. "For all the anguish felt over the loss of American lives, can we acknowledge there is something proper in the way that hubristic American power has been thwarted?" asked antiwar writer James Carroll in 2006, explicitly making the connection between the wars in Vietnam and Iraq.

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[Not Telling You]

Ah, another instantiation of the Vietnam Dolchstosslegende.

Sorry, ole pals ole chums. Not gonna work this time.