"Iraq syndrome" - how will the US get over it?

[Minstrel Boy]

Know what I mean? Vietnam humiliated the US, and the US "got over" the malaise by kicking the shit out of states like Grenada and Panama, firing missiles into Ghaddafi's bedroom, and chasing Iraq out of Kuwait. The United States then, we were told, was finally "over" Vietnam, because it had kicked ass.

Stare deeply into the well of darkness called our near future. How is the US going to "get over" Iraq? Will hard lessons finally be learned, or will it come down again to kicking someone else's ass to feel good?

[HFishbine]

1. Actually

The US got over Vietnam with Disco, cocaine and self-absorbtion.

[onebigbadwulf]

2. going

to fight whatever we can whenever we can for any excuse we can..

it is the fundamentalist protestant way.

[ex_jew]

3. Surely we have enough poor and minority US citizens to serve

as a punching bag until we get ready to take on the world again.

[wuushew]

4. Oliver Stone will release a film in 15 years after we pull out

a large granite memorial will be built in Crawford in the form of an oil well and numerous other things to heal the national psyche.

[izzie]

5. One thing we will not do is say we lost a war.

Maybe we will put up another wall to the folly of having 58000 men killed?

[damnraddem]

6. No, the U.S. 'got over it' by learning that it couldn't run the world.

Granada and Panama were part of unlearning this truth -- getting over getting over it. Iraq represented complete ignorance of the fairly-recent past. Getting over Iraq will take once again returning to reality. I guess psychotherapy is the answer. Even the chronically-mentally ill can sometimes respond to therapy.

[Scott Lee]

7. Its not a U.S. obsession. It's BUSHCO'S!

Just as Vietnam was the obsession of McNamara,Westmoreland, a couple of presidents, and a few other verminous parasites.

We have to stop assuming that the personal agendas of the cabal leaders are synonymous with the will of the American people. That is almost never the case.