Vietnam Mentality in Modern Day War

Nick Gagliani
ASA 02
Section 02
October 16, 2015

As stated in the paper, "From Saigon to Baghdad: The Vietnam Syndrome, The Iraq War and American Foreign Policy", every student brought up in the American education system knows the significance of the Vietnam war and the United States military and foreign policy. When it comes to entering a war, like "the war on terror", that arose from the invasion of Iraq after the 911 attacks of New York city, the United States uses its overpowering military capabilities to enforce their will on those who are deemed of wronging the nation.
As the case was in the Vietnam war, an opposition ill-equipped and less trained like the terror groups in the Middle East are posing as a major threat to the United States military policy. The downward spiral of the war on terror and its continuity has shown that the United States foreign policy's brutality and unwillingness to allow another "Vietnam situation" to occur. In Middle Eastern countries like Iraq, the occupation of American troops a decade after the initial war began shows the overall foreign policy that arose after the Vietnam war. Ultimately, the United States is not willing to accept another loss in war from an opposition that does not match up to the superiority of the United States. For this reason, the United States is enforcing its power on the people of these countries (parallel to the treatment of Vietnamese people) to keep order and try to regain control of the situation and eventually "win" the war.

Has the continuing occupation of these terrorist hot spots in Middle Eastern countries turned this situation into something that will get only more hostile? Or will United States military policy prevail and put down uprisings?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojiK_l45hY