I assume that you are comparing the insurgents in Iraq to the N Vietmanese?
I suppose the situation has similarities in that there is an opposition to a democratic government being installed.
However, the pure #s of opposition are night and day. The viet cong had 500,000 soldiers IIRC, while its estimated the insurgents number somewhere around 15,000.
Two completely different scenarios as far as being able to retian control of their country. Also, being they voted the way they have, I think the entire world has a duty to support them in trying to get that government up and running. The UN should be all over that one...but they wont.
|