While not a perfect fit, the parallels between President Bush's half-baked idea of setting up refugee camps on "flat" Iraqi territory -- to be defended by U.S. and allied armed forces and eventually turned over to someone else to manage (if someone like the U.N. steps forward to take on the task) - is eerily reminiscent of the early, ill-defined American commitment to the people of South Vietnam.

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