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RIGHT STUFF br> Re: Mark Moyar's Getting Vietnam Right : br> Moyer got that right! br> -- LTC Fred Mayer , US Army, Infantry retired br> (1966-67 B company commander 1/12, 1st Cav div) /p>

A few observations about "Getting Vietnam Right."

1. If generals are always preparing for and fighting the last war, so are ideologues on both side of the debate.

2. History is always written from a perspective. Beware of revisionism from either side. Whether we learn from history or not is debatable. However, it is important to read history, a lot of it from all perspectives, so you don't get hoodwinked by ideologues who are intent to giving you their version of history to advance their ends.

3. Before President Bush recently embraced analogies between Vietnam and Iraq, he rejected any attempt to draw analogies.

p>Whatever the merits of the arguments comparing Vietnam and Iraq, one cannot argue with the fact that there are substantial differences between the two wars.

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