Is Afghan Conflict Akin To Vietnam?
by Tom Bowman, NPROctober 1, 2009
As White House and Pentagon officials debate the way ahead in Afghanistan, they are looking to Vietnam as a model of what not to do. Lawmakers opposed to sending more troops to Afghanistan have found a perfect term to describe the conflict: quagmire.
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