Abstract
The most interesting difference between the Vietnam and Iraq Wars is that Vietnam War policy was punctuated when the war narrative collapsed and was overtaken by a new, competing narrative that had been taken up by high-profile figures within the same party as the president. In contrast, even after the support for the Iraq War narrative had evaporated among high-profile Republicans, the war policy in Iraq did not change. After the congressional elections in November 2006, in which the Republicans lost control of both houses of Congress largely due to public dissatisfaction with the war, and with public support for the war and President George W. Bush’s approval rating below 40 percent, hadn’t the U.S. lost its will?1 Shouldn’t there have been a change in war policy that would have ended the war? Why wasn’t there?
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