Hitchens delivers a vicious beating to the idiots on the left comparing Iraq to Vietnam:
I suppose it’s obvious that I was not a supporter of the Vietnam War. Indeed, the principles of the antiwar movement of that epoch still mean a good deal to me. That’s why I retch every time I hear these principles recycled, by narrow minds or in a shallow manner, in order to pass off third-rate excuses for Baathism or jihadism. But one must also be capable of being offended objectively. The Vietnam/Iraq babble is, from any point of view, a busted flush. It’s no good. It’s a stiff. It’s passed on. It has ceased to be. It’s joined the choir invisible. It’s turned up its toes. It’s gone. It’s an ex-analogy.
Heretofore, the advocates of the Vietnam analogy will be known as the Dead Parrot society.
I also suggest that ever time a Democrat tries to raise the specter of Vietnam, you quickly retort:
“Vietnam? You mean the Democrat conceived, Democrat initiated, and Democrat run war that is widely regarded as the only war the modern United States has ever lost? That Vietnam?”
Maybe that will slow the idiots down. Doubt it. But maybe.