America’s opium war
Asia Times
by Dmitry Shlapentokh
01/18/07
Forget Vietnam, forget Korea. The best analogy for America’s misadventure in Iraq is the Opium War of the 19th century, when a small British naval force (read Iraqi insurgents) humiliated the Middle Kingdom (read United States). And like China’s defeat in the Opium War, the disaster in Iraq could lead the US into decline...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IA19Ak01.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Dmitry Shlapentokh
01/18/07
Forget Vietnam, forget Korea. The best analogy for America’s misadventure in Iraq is the Opium War of the 19th century, when a small British naval force (read Iraqi insurgents) humiliated the Middle Kingdom (read United States). And like China’s defeat in the Opium War, the disaster in Iraq could lead the US into decline...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IA19Ak01.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 19. Jan, 15:33
