Mullen: Afghanistan is no Vietnam

By GottaLaff

Last night I posted about the Newsweek cover above. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, disagrees with their characterization:

The top U.S. military officer cautioned Monday against comparing the Pentagon's renewed focus on Afghanistan to the Vietnam War, citing terrorism and a non-occupation strategy as "dramatic differences" between the two conflicts.

"Afghanistan is much more complex," said Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

He added: "I certainly recognize - and having been in Vietnam myself - that there are those who make comparisons. I would be pretty careful about that though, for lots of reasons."

If it's anyone's war, it's Bush's. Now President Obama has to deal with the war he he has, to loosely paraphrase some war criminal named, ummm... Dummy? Scummy? Oh yeah: Rummy: