Let's get real here...

Both Iraq and Afganistan are current day Vietnams...

The only difference is that the US didn't have Vietnam as a model of what-not-to-do when Kennedy, then Johnson, escalated it... Yeah, they did have the French gettin' their asses kicked in '53 but, hey, thems was the French and not ***THE*** mighty US of A...

But Bush and the neocons had Vietnam as a model yet plowed into Afganistan and Iraq anyway...

Insanity: Repeating a behavior expecting different results...

But yeah... How do you spell quagmire???

And as much as the current crop of Repubs want to stick these wars on Obama, he didn't call 'um up so that dog don't hunt...

B~