The fallujah massacre
The massacre at Fallujah will backfire on the US whatever the outcome.

A hundred years from now there will still be revenge attacks against American targets to commemorate the massacre at Fallujah.

Unlike Vietnam the insurgents do not have the backing of the Soviet Union and there is far less sympathy for the aims of the resistance in the West than there was for the NLF. Nevertheless the comparison with Vietnam is not unreasonable. The dilemma is the same. What Gore Vidal christened "American imperialism" can neither withdraw (and admit defeat?) nor stay (and count the body bags coming home?). To use a phrase used at the time of the Vietnam conflict they can "declare victory and come home."

Even filtered through the "embedded correspondents" the viewing public are seeing homes not so different from their own homes being destroyed. It takes a little imagination to realise that the people in those houses are without water, without food and forbidden on pain of death to go outside. What must it be like for them. Yes they sympathise with the resistance. Wouldn't you in the same circumstances?