Les Jones

Middle East > Iraq as the Reverse Vietnam

Instapundit is calling Iraq the reverse vietnam: "In Vietnam, the brass talked happy-talk, the press talked to grunts and reported that the war was going worse than we were told. But now it's Americans who are talking to the grunts, and, as StrategyPage noted last year, getting a different picture of how the war is going [compared to what the media is telling them]."

Sounds about right. Vietnam destroyed American faith in the military for a generation. Iraq could do the same to the media's credibility.