Trump Wants to Put His War 'in Perspective' by Recalling Vietnam and Iraq. Comforted?
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Trump Wants to Put His War 'in Perspective' by Recalling Vietnam and Iraq. Comforted?
As Trump’s War shambles on with no end in sight, President Trump asks us to put his “little excursion” “in perspective.” Compared to Vietnam and Iraq, Trump says, the Iran conflict has lasted “not very long at all.” Does anyone find comfort in comparing the Iran disaster with two of America’s previous catastrophic wars? Once, U.S. forces had been in Vietnam for only two months. Then our involvement became unlimited and the war did not end until …
When Trump Compares Iran to Vietnam or Iraq
Neither of the two previous quagmires was revealed in its calamitous stupidity as swiftly as Trump’s war on Iran, writes Mitchell Zimmerman. By Mitchell Zimmerman Common Dreams As Donald Trump’s War shambles on with no end in sight, the U.S. president asks us to put his “little excursion” “
In the face of gas prices skyrocketing, companies are warning that they are selling significantly less than expected and a war that most Americans have rejected since its inception, the U.S. president has chosen to minimize the effects of the conflict.Donald Trump is taking away the importance of the war in Iran by calling it "excursion" and stressing that (for the moment) it is much shorter than that of Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam or World War I…
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