James Taranto claims (without evidence, of course) that “some” in the left and the press want America to be defeated in Iraq:

That Iraq is “another Vietnam” was a cliche long before the
U.S.-led coalition even liberated Baghdad, but lately the drumbeat has become
louder and more tired than ever. A Google
News search for “Iraq” and “Vietnam” turns up more than
6,500 articles in the past month…

Is Iraq really similar to Vietnam? Only in the sense that some in politics
and the media would like to see America lose.

This is the latest in a long pattern of suggestions that critics of the war in Iraq hate America or want to undermine the US war effort. And, though I don’t like facile Vietnam analogies, how can Taranto possibly think that there are no similarities between the two wars?