Deja Vu

I have been away for a few days. I took a short trip abroad with some friends. It is good to be back home. I am something of a recluse these days and it is good to be back to the peace and quiet of my life.

Sitting here at my computer, reading the news from around the world, it would seem that little has changed in the few days that I was away ( or has it been years?). Mr. Blair has admitted, on the Al Jazeera news network of all places, that the war in Iraq has proven to be a "disaster". Mr. Bush has taken a short trip to Vietnam and congradulated them on their new capitalism. Mr. Kissinger has ruled out any possibility of a military victory in Iraq. The Republican party is planning a two year attack strategy on Hillary Clinton and Democrats in general. There will be a bill put before Congress that would reinstate the draft in the USA. Senator McCain has criticized the "Iraqification" policy of the military as a genuine war strategy. During the end years of the war in Vietnam war there was a strategy called Vietnamization. This was a policy of staying in Vietnam long enough for the Vietnamese government (USA backed) to insure it's own defense capability aginst the insurgency of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.

A disasterous and seemingly endless war, confused and incompetent political and military leadership, thousands of innocent lives tragically ended, all for what?

For those of us who remember Vietnam, or were there, here is a little video for you.

Deja Vu