Afghanistan - Vietnam for slow learners

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A good article by Simon Jenkins http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/simon-jenkins-obama-iraq-war

As with the Russians so with the west: this poor, intensely private country will one day see off another invader who sought to reorganise its history with guns, bombs and money. It has not worked. It was never going to work. Oh so painfully, we are now beginning to understand.