WRITER PAINTS BOTH VIETNAM AND IRAQ AS 'WARS WE WON'

I'm not sure which history book one recent writer ("Don't give up; cost too high") was reading when we lost Vietnam, but we were never any closer to winning that war as we are with this one.

Vietnam was a conflict in which we lost more troops than our so-called "allies" (must mean the French). The enemy was more numerous and more able to adapt to our tactics than we were at adapting theirs.

In the end, we dumped more unnecessary troops into the meat grinder when we shouldn't have. But if we truly were winning, why did we pack up and leave when the North was knocking on our doorstep in Saigon?

Interestingly enough, the writer is suggesting the same of Iraq: That we are winning and that we have always been winning in Iraq.

Even after 4 years of never ending war.

However, the realities on the ground are suggesting the complete opposite. But if and when we lose this war (and it looks like that we will), it won't spell the demise of Western civilization that we know now--as the writer suggests in his imaginative "doomsday" scenario.

But if he is so worried over the high price of oil in the future, then he'd better get off his duff, write his rep, and demand that we dump more money into alternate energy--instead of feeding it into the military war machine!

Unless of course, people like him are afraid of offering up alternative plans to our dependence on foreign oil...?

Schuyler Thorpe

xxxth Street xx #X001

Everett, WA 98204

(XXX)-XXX-XXXX