Reply #96: Not Like Vietnam

[OrdinaryTa]

Vietnam in less than six months

No way. Ordinary people were aware of Vietnam, even if they didn't know what it was about. The Vietnam War sent home 150 dead Americans a week, a price Americans didn't want to pay. What's different now is that Iraq is cheap. Nobody important is getting killed; in fact it's unlikely that grief will come to anybody they know. Average Americans don't care about the people of Iraq any more than they did about the people of Vietnam.

Bush is still madly popular. Democrats criticize his job performance, but ordinary Americans factor that in; they expect it. They suspect there's something not quite loyal about Democrats. After all, who wouldn't want to punish the people who attacked us on September 11th?

I honestly have no idea what we can do about this. The notion that the world is caving in on Bush is a fantasy. If the election were held today, Bush would win easily.