Boomer WWII, Vietnam obsessions overshadow Iraq debacle

...[T]he Vietnam War was the defining political issue of the “Baby Boomer” generation’s youth. Many of this generation developed their entire personal political outlook based on their rejection of the Vietnam War. They consequently see international and national affairs through the lens of the 1960s and the Vietnam War. Many of the Baby Boomer writers, Senators, and talking heads who now run America instinctively compared the major international conflict of their youth to the major international conflict of their adulthood. "Looking at Iraq Through the Lens of History" Stanford Review