My colleague Geoff Dickens relates a “highlight” from the Chris Matthews show this weekend:

Matthews: “Clarence, what struck me, a couple of events this week. Horrible events. We graduate seven police over there, Iraqi police, guys all dressed up in their uniforms ready to go out and work and keep the streets safe, shot right, blown up right there in the middle of their graduation ceremony. A G.I. goes into a university campus to get a Coke somewhere, shot like this. [Points finger to his head] Just melts into the crowd. What is your make, what is your take on this?”
Page: “And the, and the week before that, another G.I. shot while buying a DVD. Well, it sounds like deja vu all over again, but I don’t want to…”
Matthews: “Where, from where?”
Page: “Well, Vietnam. You know it’s, you don’t know where the front is. It’s a police action and that means you’re constantly under fire. The big problem here is that, that we’ve made American uniforms the target now for the antipathy of various factions. As long as we are perceived as being very, essentially alone, although it is something of a coalition. But we’re not really working with a number of other countries or with Arab countries there as well. Then, then we’re gonna be the targets, bearing the burden of, of most of this struggle and it’s hard.”