Debunking

Jeff Greenfield throws cold water on yet another lame Iraq-Vietnam comparison:

So, combine the memory of Lyndon Johnson as a “prisoner” in the White House, retreating from the public square, with the memory of Johnson visiting informally with troops, and what do you get? A vivid, almost wholly inaccurate “memory” of a Lyndon Johnson vainly trying to rally the public behind his policies at friendly military installations.

Read the whole thing here.