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This 8 page paper compares the 1991 Gulf War with the Vietnam War, and argues that the Gulf War was much more beneficial. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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a dreadful event for some. This paper argues that the Gulf War was more beneficial to the United States than the Vietnam War. Discussion Before discussing specifically why the Gulf
War was more beneficial than Vietnam, it might be useful to compare the two briefly. Vietnam, for better or worse, has shaped a great deal of American policy ever since.
Marilyn Young says there are "Two, Three, Many Vietnams": I mean this in three senses: first, that Vietnam looms over every major US foreign policy decision; second, that
all efforts to avoid another Vietnam have led, inexorably, to the reproduction of many of its central tropes; and finally, that the American use of its power has produced multiple
forms of resistance (Young, 2006, p. 413). The history of the Vietnam conflict and its indelible mark on the U.S. has now overwritten the "good, or at least
the better, Gulf War" (Young, 2006, p. 413). The 1991 Gulf War was delineated not by what could be done, but by what "must not be done: the press must
not be allowed free access to soldiers or battlefields; bodies must not be counted ... and the war must not drag on" (Young, 2006, p. 413). These conditions were met,
leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young, 2006, p. 413). By the "Vietnam syndrome Bush meant the reluctance of the American public
to allow the government to engage in military adventures in faraway places whose relationship to the national interest was obscure" (Young, 2006, p. 413). It may well have been the
Vietnam syndrome and Bushs reluctance to push through to Baghdad that got us into Iraq again, and where we are stuck to this day. Barry Gan says baldly that there
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