Excising the Ghosts of Iraq: America Is Winning Again — Get Used to It!

<![CDATA[The Vietnam War “officially” ended on April 30, 1975. (Spoiler Alert: It didn’t go well for our side.) Just 16 years later, the stunning success of the Persian Gulf War excised the ghosts of Vietnam — that lingering feeling that the U.S. military was an agent of evil, whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and American resolve was somehow incompatible with peace and prosperity.]]>