with vietnam, so very few people at the pentagon, the state department are working in the white house ever pause to use the phrase, let s remember that this is their country, not our country, in terms of assembling potential peace accords? ironically at the start of the war, president bush was asked this back in october of 2001, almost 20 years ago, he was asked is this going to be another vietnam could we be drawn into a quagmire in afghanistan and bush was dismissive of this saying we learned our lessons from vietnam we re not going to let this happen again we re not going to founder around in afghanistan we have a clear mission we re going to accomplish it. and his defense secretary, donald rumsfeld would mock the idea that we could get stuck in afghanistan like vietnam. the key issue here is we had a lot of hue bris, because the war