As a counterpoint to all the Bush posts - a video of a cat climbing into an empty fishbowl: [link]
Kinda' amazing that it, um, fit.
That story is just so fucking sad. Poor family.
Oh no. I guess there wasn't really much chance of any other outcome after all this time, but still.
The problem with Vietnam as a competitor is that Vietnam was a strategically marginal area.
That makes Vietnam worse in a sense, but you've got a good point. From a strategic standpoint a disaster in the Middle East trumps a disaster in Southeast Asia.
tommyrot - that's a hilarious video. I have to admit that my cat Tanuki LOVES getting into small spaces. . . although I've never tried to get her to fit into a fishbowl.
The problem with Vietnam as a competitor is that Vietnam was a strategically marginal area. Iraq was a strategic error in the Middle East. (You could argue that Vietnam was morally worse. Vietnam deaths numbered in the millions where our best guess as to how many Iraqi lives we've wasted is around 700,000. But the Iraq war is not over, and the number killed accelerates every month. So it could yet surpass Vietnam as a moral failure too.)
If this ACTUALLY starts WWIII Bush
totally
wins.