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All the Kennedy assassination restrospectives this past weekend have brought up an interesting point made by a local columnist, Glenn Walton. He says "Vietnam prefigured the precise mistakes that the present George Bush has made, reacting to a convulsive national tragedy by involving his country in foreign wars with little understanding of their consequences." In other words, Sept. 11 had the same shock and emotional impact that Kennedy's assassination did 40 years ago. The unthinkable happened and within a very short time after, President Johnson escalated the "advisors" in Vietnam into what turned into a full scale disastrous war. Is history repeating itself? More U.S. soldiers have now died keeping the peace than died during the recent war, which was a direct result of 9/11. Afghanistan was cowed so Bush moved on to Iraq to tame another hotbed of terrorism and dictatorship. This one isn't going to be tamed so quickly. Will they turn and retreat from Iraq as they finally had to in Viet Nam?