History Lesson for those who Need One but Ignore History; A True Lesson of Vietnam?

JFK warned that these policies and practices gave aid, comfort and strength to Soviet communists who prayed on misery, exploitation and corruption.

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"Misery, exploitation and corruption" is what we brought or amplified with the Iraq invasion.

That simple? That simple.

And are we dealing with it? Even assuming stuff goes on in Iraq that is unreported, there's still no reason to believe anything significant is occurring to deal with those root problems.

And Our Leaders, really, are incapable of dealing with those kinds of problems.

On top of that, the infitidah, for has proven that this kind of insurgency doen't burn out but lasts as long as the root causes -- misery, exploitation and corruption -- go untreated or ignored.

Or, for another example, you can maybe look at Vietnam.