Analysis: "America's `Iraq syndrome'"

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But there will be an "Iraq Syndrome," he stresses — just as there was a "Vietnam Syndrome" that followed the Vietnam War, a cooling period during which Americans will be loath to endorse the kind of "forceful foreign policy" that leads to expensive and bloody military adventures.

Prof. John Mueller of Ohio State University agrees. He says the syndrome will take hold "big time." In fact, it's already taking hold.

"The attitude to North Korea has mellowed, even when they exploded a weapon," he notes. "As for Iran, the idea of (America) doing anything militarily seems to be declining."

At the Boston conference this year, the similarities between the Iraq and Vietnam wars — and the lessons from the latter — were on everyone's mind.

Many of the key historical figures attended: Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Walter Cronkite, Kennedy confidante Ted Sorenson, LBJ's former aide Jack Valenti and the war's most famous reporter, David Halberstam.

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Vietnam syndrome ended sometime between Grenada and Gulf War One.

I just would like to plan how long I can expect lower levels of stress from U.S. foreign policy.

didn't influence the IWR yes voters. :(

It was an official proclamation and joyous, like the birth announcement of a royal heir.
(oops my bad: he said we'd licked the Vietnam Syndrome at the end of the Persian Gulf War--it was April 1991 apparently flanked by Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, probably a press conference.)

It would be nice if we could somehow avoid swinging from the pole of vain jingoism to a pole of defeatist isolationism, and be guided by a spirit of hopeful and rational international cooperation in our foreign policy, instead of by manic-depressive bipolar disorder. Of course, to get off the bipolar jingoist-isolationist rollercoaster we would need to make radical changes to our economic system, since that's what drives our foreign policy, and nobody including Democrats wants to look in that mirror. So I guess we'd better just belt ourselves in tightly for the next mood swing.

Hello Hadji, I'm home!

georgie STILL is the decider for 2? years.

impeachment is neccessary.