The Nazi/appeasement analogy

[mburbank]

I'm sorry, what were you saying that undermines the Vietnam analogy. I missed it, especially the part where everybody could agree that it was a bad war. It isn't almost everybody on Iraq, it's just sixty percent or so, but give it a few more years.

Mmmm. Ways in which Islmaic extremism isn't like appeasement. Tough, tough call.

Okay.
1.) They aren't a single unfied group, like, say, the Nazis.
2.) If they are like the Nazis, shouldn't we have a draft, war bonds, a totally redirected economy? If W believes this is in a league with that, shouldn't he be working hard to put us on the kind of WWII footing we had, concidering he's had both both houses of congress all this time?
W just said that Victory in Iraq was as inmportant as victory at Omaha Beach. IF that's true, how come he hasn't even tried to fight that fight?
3.) They don't have the budget the Nazis had.
4.) They don't have the army the nazis had.
5.) They don't have a leader that commands loyalty on even a remote par with Hitler.

The whole point of the Nazi/appeasment argument is it was the last war everybody agreed HAD to be fought. If W thought for a moment this was that, he'd have canned Rummy long ago, since he's secretary of defense and we are having such a bad time.

And, like I said, I'm more than willing to trade. In light of this particular new flight of fantasy, I'm off comparisons. I've decided Iraq is nothing like Vietnam. It's completely it's own unique clusterfuck. Vietnam was something we could get ourselves out of eventually. This may not be.