Unlike the North Vietnamese, the Sunni insurgents will have a difficult time taking over a country where they represent only 20% of the population. Indeed, with Shia Arabs and Kurds making up 80% of the country, the insurgency is focused on only four of Iraq’s 18 provinces.
伊拉克和越南的区别还体现在另外一个方面。和北越不一样，逊尼派叛乱者只占总人口的20%，要想控制整个国家不是件容易的事。而什叶派和库尔德人却占据了全国人口的80%，叛乱只是集中在伊拉克18个省份中的4个而已。