America's Last "Long War" Offers Lessons for Iraq
President Bush has called Iraq a crucial battleground in a decades-long struggle against Islamic terrorism. "It's important for our fellow citizens to understand that failure in Iraq would be a disaster for our future," he told soldiers at Fort Benning, Georgia, last week. Historians and Middle East experts, however, say that America's last "long war," the four-decade Cold War against Soviet communism, offers some cautionary lessons as the nation debates its next moves in Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012107F.shtml
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