Measuring Success in Afghanistan

Measuring a War Gone to Hell

The problem was that none of the official metrics managed to measure what mattered most in Vietnam. History may not simply repeat itself, but there's good reason to look askance at whatever set of metrics the Obama administration manages to devise. After all, as in the Vietnam years, Obama's people, too, will be mustering numbers in search of "success"; they, too, will be measuring "progress." And those numbers -- like the Vietnam era body counts -- will ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 8, 2009

Englehardt puts together many opinions and factoids that taken together clearly spell out quagmire, written big in blood and dollars.

Do you remember how to spell Vietnam?

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