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I still think that's the most appropriate Vietnam analogy with Iraq: don't fight a war without overwhelming public support.
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Public support goes with the events. The more body bags return, the less support, as Vietnam showed. With the current stream of internet information Guvmint lies and manipulations will be revealed much sooner than 30 years ago. The Tonkin hoax would have been known weeks after it had been used as an excuse.
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This is a poorly-written sentence because 95% of people will misinterpret it. The American military force is stronger now than it ever has been in history - partly because it's now been used, and is battlefield-hardened with commanders having all sorts of different kinds of experience. There is no question about the ability of the force to topple a hostile regime. It can topple just about anyone, with the use of its little pinky finger. That part of the Iraqi misadventure was the "Mission Accomplished" section.
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As the analysts show, the US and Israel army are not suited to the current asymetric warfare and therefore are losing the battle no matter how much technology has been pumped into the army. In fact that's the weak spot, human intelligence has been completely ignored that last decades in favor of War Games. The head of the Arab section of the CIA didn't even speak the Arabic language...
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The US will find it impossible to topple a hostile regime because of political pressures. The world and the American people are against it. Which is what makes the Iraqi misadventure a bigger and bigger mistake. It turns N Korea and even Iran into Somebody Else's Problem.
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Von Clausewitz already teached us that you can never separate War with Politik in his tripartite conception of war. "These three tendencies," he wrote, "are like three different codes of law, deeply rooted in their subject and yet variable in their relationship to one another."
