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Afghan War Draws Comparisons to Vietnam

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Uploaded by on Oct 8, 2009

As the situation in Afghanistan grows more deadly and complex, the Obama administration finds itself confronted with difficult questions over strategy and policy. Comparisons between the Afghan war's bid to defeat the Taliban and the 1960s war to defeat the communist backed insurgency in Vietnam have become frequent, especially regarding the growing U.S. military presence. As VOA news analyst Gary Thomas reports, there are similarities between the two conflicts, but also some sharp differences.

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  • VIVA TALIBAN!

  • we afghans are more fierce than any other race on earth. it will be way worse than vietnam.

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  • Oh silly misogynistic homophobic Islam, y u so silly?

  • @basak983

    ohh nonsense. 

  • fuck ragheads. Any camel jockey is a worthless parasitic peice of shit

  • @jesus07juice .. ha ha ha ... lol..  nice question ...

  • @basak983 Are you not from New Zealand?

  • I saw the movie "The pentagon papers" lately, and I just thought DAMit, this is what is happening right now. No, not the papers, the publishing of of the wikileaksdokuments is also a bit similar, but I am talking about the hole situation around the war. Obama is escalating the war, so was Nixon, etc, It's totally sic actually how many similarities...

  • @basak983 Well your ignorant

  • 95 apaches? if you're going to lie about a number at least make it realistic. 10 would be realistic and believable. 95 is one hell of a stretch

  • Iraq was compared to Vietnam because the Iraqi resistance there killed over a thousand US soldiers in less than a year in April 2004 there was already a graveyard of destroyed Humvees Abrams and different vehicles and Apaches.

    the Mujahideen has shot down 95 Apaches in April of 2004 alone.

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