The 'S' Word

Felicity Arbuthnot

In the U.S., the thought of another humiliation on the scale of Viet Nam sends shivers down spines in the corridors of power. In Britain it is the 'S' word: Suez, Prime Minister Anthony Eden's ill fated foray of exactly fifty years ago this month. As the precise anniversary (29th October) approaches, another Anthony (Blair) is in deep trouble and the parallels are startling. From health to hubris, from deceit to dizzying arrogance, the paths of the two Anthonys seem to converge. In July 1956, Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalised theCountry's Suez Canal Company, which operated the Canal, a vital artery for world oil distribution which, for transporation of oil from the Persian Gulf to Europe, cut eleven thousand nautical miles off the journey...

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Bush: Iraq Could Be Like Vietnam...
ABC News Ed O'Keefe October 18, 2006 09:24 PM

President Bush said in a one-on-one interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that a newspaper column comparing the current fighting in Iraq to the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, which was widely seen as the turning point in that war, might be accurate.

Stephanopoulos asked whether the president agreed with the opinion of columnist Tom Friedman, who wrote in The New York Times today that the situation in Iraq may be equivalent to the Tet offensive in Vietnam almost 40 years ago.

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