"Turkey, the US and Empire's Twilight
By CONN HALLINAN
When U.S. forces found themselves beset by a growing insurgency in Iraq following their lighting overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the most obvious parallel that came to mind was Vietnam: an occupying army, far from home, besieged by a shadowy foe. But Patrick Cockburn, ace Middle East reporter for the Independent and CounterPunch, suggested that the escalating chaos was more like the Boer War than the conflict in Southeast Asia."
More:Conn Hallinan: Turkey, the US and Empire's Twilight
