Vietnam and Iraq: The Compairson

Alot has allready about the compairson between Vietnam and Iraq. But I'm not sure adequet argument has been made between the two. The most important thing that is different this time around is the point in history, the point in time in which these wars have taken place. The 1960's was a time of revolutionairy upheaval in the social fabric of America. There were these social tensions in society that came to the for and sparked a revolution in the social fabric of America. You top that with Americans' hatred for a war that did not fight the larger evil force in the world at the time, the Soviet Union. The Vietnam war, was a stategic war that was picked by the belief that communism needed to be blocked from spreading, and that the only way to stop it was to attack it on a small scale without direct confrontation with the Soviet Union. It was a failure of understanding that communism can only be stopped by a confrontation with the larger foe, the Soviet Union. Of the social issues at the time, beside the race issue, was the issue of the draft. This was a crititcal issue that that influenced support for the war in Vietnam. In a democracy you need the continued support of the people if you are to have any polilitcal capital to prove sussesful in either trying to pass legislation or by trying to sell a war to a reluctant people. LBJ made a crucial mistake by following the advice of the generals, and leading the country into war that he could not provide a reasonable explanation for. What was the pressing threat from the force of evil, in place like Vietnam, that scared the military into believeing that it had to act against it in a back water country like Vietnam?
So how does that compare to the war in Iraq today? First theres' no social revolution fueling the passions if the people. Second the president has not touched the draft issue thus keeping support for the armedforcess, steady. Third the case for war in Iraq was not made as a stratiegic argument against a ideaology as was the case against communism. But as an argument against tyranny supporting terrorism. Activly. Finaley America today is a older and wiser society and it has not lost the lessons of the past. The only thing lost in America today is a clear argument and reasoning of the national agenda.