I agree with both Botnst and Vronsky. I don't think Iraq is much like Vietnam at all, though I do think our boots are on the mucky edge of a quagmire. I don't think the American public will have much stomach for an ongoing 'death by a thousand cuts', not to mention continually funneling billions of budget-busting deficit funds into a country full of 'ingrates' who don't appreciate our "good intentions."

I suspect that the endgame success won't quite match up to the grandiose prognostications of this administration and its Neo-con handlers. If we actually do succeed in establishing democratic principles by means of aggressive force, what if the Iraqis 'choose' to create a hostile theocracy similar to Iran? What then? By over-playing our hand as aggressive occupiers (like we're doing now), we face the very real possibility of winning all the major battles, yet ultimately losing the war....we've been down that road before.