Georgie Anne Geyer explains it all for you

Geyer has seen Situation FUBAR-type scenarios before, during decades as a foreign correspondent. Her most recent column is the best summation of Situation FUBAR I've read. Unlike the current generation of winguts, she remembers the war whose name begins with a "V" very, very well. (And no, Geyer is not a liberal, so that talking point won't work.)

My old friend Barry Zorthian, who was the official American spokesman in Vietnam and beloved by journalists, told me last week he wrote a memo to the commanding generals in 1968, outlining all the problems there -- and that they were virtually a mirror image of Iraq today. Then he told me sadly, "We could have had the same deal with the North Vietnamese in 1968 that we got five years later -- only in those five years, 25,000 Americans died."

But is the experience in Vietnam in any real way equal to the experience in Iraq? As a matter of fact, in many ways, yes.

Imagine if people like Geyer had been in the Bush cabinet instead of clueless neocons with no concept of the world outside their cushy think tanks. Things would've been a lot different, yes?

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