In Vietnam, we had the legitimate excuse that the military fought with one arm. They could not do the things you would ordinarily do to an enemy. And, most of the fighting men were draftees who had no stomach for a war without clear goals. In this case, we pulled out all the stops - bunker busters, highest tech intelligence, and unlike in Vietnam, no resistance from the regular army.

We're going to lose this war unless we bomb their cities into rubble and kill millions of their citizens, as in Japan, until their will to fight is broken. Since that is impossible, the war is effectively lost. That is what Bush has accomplished - to send our A team down to defeat. Imagine how North Korea will be heartened, to say nothing of the Chinese.

This is what you get when you install a congenital idiot in the top job.