The prediction that Iran will be America's next Vietnam'a moral catastrophe, an abyss into which money and lives have been pitched, with the sole effect of weakening the United States and heartening its enemies'is already in general circulation among Americans. A few days ago, the Iranian embassy in Hanoi joined the doomsaying. Its X account featured an AI-generated image of a mouth-breathing American GI being lectured to by a smiling Vietnamese soldier in Saigon on April 30, 1975. 'We thought that after the Vietnam War, you would never invade any country again,' the soldier says. 'It seems that after 50 years you have forgotten that devastating defeat.' Fifty years before 1975 was 1925. Why not show present-day Vietnam' Probably because it would be a nightmarish scene, not for an American but for a Vietnamese Communist or, for that matter, for a present-day Iranian hard-liner. Modern Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) is the site of a total victory for market economics, global trade,...
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