Or so asserts Patrick Cockburn, in this longish but well worth reading article that focuses on the rising level of violence/chaos, and the continued British and US ignorance of what's actually happening. All in all, Cockburn's piece is a damning indictment of those who churlishly laid claim to grandiosity back in 2003.
Oh--the picture above is an awful enough reminder of exactly what happened in Vietnam--as Cockburn puts it, "the time when it becomes evident to all that the government is expiring." But, believe it or not, it could actually be worse:
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