TIM O'BRIEN!

So... I tried searching for Tim O'Brien on google and on utdirect in order to find out when hes coming to UT. I couldn't find anything about it... but I did come across an interesting quote from O'Brien on a fan website. Since we've discussed the comparison between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, I thought it was quite appropriate.

[on comparing the Vietnam War to the Iraq War] "The Iraq thing has the feel of a potential quagmire where we just get deeper and deeper and deeper involved, and when that happens it’s harder and harder and harder to get out. There’s also the similarity with the difficulty in finding the enemy. In Vietnam, we couldn’t find the V.C., they were blended in with the population, and we’re having the same problem in Iraq . . ."
-Tim O'Brien as told to Patrick Hunt for the U. of Dayton, Oct. 2003

...pretty interesting. The rest of the article is on this website: http://www.flyernews.com/article.php?section=AE&volume=51&issue=9&artnum=01