Vietnam Redux

Last night I watched Chris Matthews, Pat Robertson, and Doris Kearns Goodwin debate the Iraq war in the context of Vietnam. The most tiresome legacy of the baby boom generation is their compulsion to analyze all foreign policy through the prism of Vietnam. Is this another Vietnam? Are we in a Vietnam quagmire? Remember the Tet offensive? And on and on.

It's been forty years since Vietnam. Can we possibly find a more modern analogy than the glory years of the baby boomers, the sixties, to reference in terms of foreign policy? Enough already!