I opposed the Iraq Adventure from the start & I am frankly mystified by Democrats who supported the administration's vendetta against Saddam, especially as it involved largely abandoning Afghanistan, where we might have actually been able to do a bit of legitimate nation building. I've been tentatively making a historical analogy between our current situations -- leaving Afghanistan to focus on Iraq -- & the moment in 1961 when the Kennedy administration shifted from thinking about Lao to thinking about Vietnam. I also opposed that other elective war, the one in Southeast Asia.

I need to go back & look again at that little piece of history. Historical analogy is most useful when it is most specific.