I was just thinking how the recent fighting in Baghdad, focused around the Green Zone and Sard City, had comparisons to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and those pictures of the US helicopters fleeing of the roof of the Hanoi US embassy.

As a sidenote, It is interesting how an indigenous force uses the terrain and the weather while an occuping army fights against it.

Could you imagine the US Army planing actions around sandstorms?

I read that in Vietnam the Vietnamese quickly realized US actions, especially air strikes, always took a break for lunch.

The USA should negotiate some final political settlement and get out of Iraq.

I note there is a lot of the now-common propaganda between the lines involving latest battles, such as the idea the US is battling an "army."

It is not an "army." It is a militia. It's made up of citizen soldiers mainly from their own neighborhoods. Compared to the US Army they are like fleas on the back of a dog; fleas that are apparently hard

They'll never learn because of their arrogance... ya can't win a guerrilla war...It's the attrition, Stupid!