Is Iraq becoming America's new Vietnam ??

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I have pondered for quite a while before posting the topic .. but with the latest American reinforcements being sent to Iraq and with no deadline given for their return, I felt I could ask the question. I am old enough to remember Vietnam, in many ways (and in a nutshell) the expectation was to 'go in' sort out the 'problems' and leave .. admirable enough .. but it never worked out that way and America spent years sending troops after troops .. sadly many of whom would never return alive to families and loved ones ... and realistically America never achieved what they originally set out to do .. And now we have the Iraq 'situation' .. I know the 'problem' is a completely different one to Vietnam .. but once again we have a situation where Iraqs problems are going to be very long term, decades probably .. there are no short and easy ways to sort out the ethnic problems .. and while those problems continue there can be no real self governing .. So now America has pledged yet more troops .. yet by all accounts the Iraqi citizens themselves don't want this .. so not only might there be more civil fighting but potentially more backlashes against the troops who are there supposedly to help .. Sorry, starting to go round in circles, but what I can and do see .. is a 'Vietnam' situation all over again ... but how can anyone resolve this .. if American troops leave it could end in wholesale ethnic slaughter .. if they stay .. well it probably might just exacerbate and prolong the conflict .. Far too many lives are being lost, both by the troops and by the Iraqi citizens .. but what next ??