Afghanistan could look a lot more like Vietnam in 1973

Obama must find a way to win fast in Afghanistan or risk new wars erupting across the globe

By James Jay Carafano
Sunday, January 3, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s little chance Kabul will become Saigon 1968. If the war in Afghanistan starts going south for allied forces, President Obama will probably quit rather than risk getting bogged down.

President Johnson considered Vietnam more a distraction than a national mission, yet he ramped up the troop commitment all the same. In 1968, the North Vietnamese launched a major offensive during the Tet holiday. They lost that battle. Badly!

But the fact that they were able to mount such a large-scale offensive gave many Americans — including Walter Cronkite — the impression that the war wasn’t winnable. As “the U.S. is bogged downâ€