Good god

The news that American soldiers tortured and sexually abused Iraqi prisoners--and took gleeful photographs documenting the abuse--makes me want to scream. (Video of a CBS report about the abuse, with some of the photographs, can be seen here.)

Vietnam is the wrong analogy for our intervention in Iraq. Iraq is our Afghanistan, as in the nation the Soviet Union invaded in 1980 in order to install a friendly regime. You'll recall that the Soviet Union imploded as a result of that caper.

Except we already have an Afghanistan. It's called Afghanistan.