Oh, please, Charles.  They've also referred to Israel's occupation of
Southern Lebanon as "Israel's Vietnam" and argued against our involvement
in Yugoslavia because it would be "another Vietnam".  The "similarity"
they see is a prolonged, expensive, and ultimately losing battle, which is
of course not the analogy that Chomsky is making at all since it is a
largely meaningless comparison.

An analogy consist of more than just two situations being compared.  It
also is intimately tied to the comparison itself -- which, from the looks
of it, most of your analyses completely ignores.  

Nathan Folkert
nfolk...@cs.stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~nfolkert

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* The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do        *
* But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew,     *
* "Yeh will in yer vikings," said Brian Boru,         *
* And threw them back into the ocean!                 *
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* The Sea, oh the Sea, is the gradh geal mo croide    *
* Long may it stay between England and me!            *
* It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free. *
* Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water             *
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       - The Sea Around Us