Let's start with a touch of irony. For thirty years, the men (and lone woman) now running our country havealso been running away from Vietnam. In this war, it only took six days for Vietnam to catch up to them. Lastnight, for instance, here's what I noticed on the CBS and ABC national news, followed by the Lehrer News Hour.CBS led off with word that the U.S. military in Iraq, where all was going according to plan and on schedule,had nonetheless called for reinforcements from the States to guard exposed supply lines and 700 soldiers froman armored unit were being shipped out immediately. As the Vietnam War went on, of course, the military wasalways offering public reassurances about how splendidly things were going and then asking the President formore men.