Gwynne Dyer on the Iraq/Vietnam Parallel
Here’s a very interesting piece of crystal-ball gazing from war historian Gwynne Dyer: Welcome to Iraq-Nam. He thinks that the US will probably invade Syria sometime before the election next year in order to help Bush’s election prospects. Bush will win said election, after which there will be increasing Viet Nam-style quagmire and an eventual pullout from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, leaving violently anti-US Islamic hard-liners in charge of each of those countries.
Sounds good (well, bad, but credible) to me. And it’s quite testable. So, let’s check back in 2006 or 2007, and see how good a job Dyer did in predicting things.
September 6th, 2003 at 8:04 pm
i read your column about twice a week in the internet express(trinidad). i really enjoy your insight on things. especially, the war in iraq and terrorism. i won’t mine reading your column every day. living in new york, we don’t have the luxuary of having columnist who tell it like it is when it comes to iraq and george w. bush.
i see that i can read your column in the toronto star besides the internet express.
November 18th, 2003 at 11:08 am
Gwynne Dyer rocks. This guy has nailed it in almost every article I ever read. He’s got a dyerstrodamus thing going on.
November 20th, 2003 at 10:12 pm
I like how Gwynne Dyer cites no evidence or information in his article. Oh yeah, and I like how his predition is going to be horribly wrong…
March 15th, 2004 at 7:31 pm
Gwynne Dyer gives me hope. He writes well and I especially liked the editorial “Invasions aren’t solution to dictators.” (Under title “War in Iraq” Winnipeg Free Press, March 15, 2004)
Let’s heed the quote, below.
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his farewell address
Stan Penner