from aljazeera......
"Ever since the United States endured defeat in the Vietnam War the American political establishment has tried hard to restore national and international confidence in the role of military power in favourably resolving conflicts. America has continued to invest more than the next ten countries combined in constructing the most deadly and versatile war machine that has ever existed, and yet it has never in all its history felt as insecure. Something is fundamentally wrong, perhaps several things.
After the Vietnam experience weakened the national appetite for overseas military involvements, the more aggressive members of the Pentagon derided this reluctance to endorse wars of choice as the 'Vietnam Syndrome.' Successive American presidents from both parties tried their best to end this mood of self-restraint. Ronald Reagan, for instance, lamented that "For too long we have lived with the Vietnam Syndrome." George H. W Bush (Bush I) after the 1991 victory in the Gulf War joyfully exclaimed: "we have finally kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once and for all." Unfortunately, this turned out to be an accurate prediction, with the result that arguing against overseas abuses of American military power became again 'a hard sell', especially since the 9/11 attacks"...........READ MORE
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