就像乔治·W·布什为伊拉克战争所做的辩护一样，美国总统林登·约翰逊预测说在越南的失败“将在一个国家，然后又一个国家里重现 ” 。
As President George W. Bush argued about the war in Iraq, US President Lyndon Johnson predicted that defeat in Vietnam “would be renewed in one country and then another.”