Gaza – Vietnam War Like
Updated 2024-01-04
2023-12-07 Israel’s War on Gaza Now Resembles Our War on Vietnam Mass bombing didn’t destroy the Vietnamese Communists and won’t destroy Hamas, but it sure kills lots of civilians.
In his public remarks about Israel’s war in Gaza, President Biden has urged Israel not to make the same mistakes America made in responding to the attacks of 9/11: overreacting, which in the case of the United States consisted of taking the war to a country (Iraq) that wasn’t even involved in the attacks, and to another country (Afghanistan) where we remained enmeshed for 20 years. If anything, though, Israel has opted to ape an even greater American folly. It is waging war on Gaza much as we waged war on Vietnam. Both the U.S. and Israel insisted they sought to make war only on a distinct military target. In Vietnam, that was the Viet Cong and eventually North Vietnamese troops. In Gaza, that’s Hamas. The problem in both cases has been that the American and then the Israeli forces couldn’t really separate out their designated enemies from the general population. In both cases, they quickly gave up trying, which meant they ceased to care about the civilian deaths and injuries they caused—if indeed, they ever cared at all. https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-12-07-israels-war-gaza-vietnam/
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