Recalling Suez

I heard alot of comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam. In Britain they are more familiar with the debacle of Suez in 1956. Read this:

One of the most paradoxical aspects of this bitter debate has been the constant references to Suez. The late Robin Cook described the Iraqi enterprise as the worst error in British foreign policy since Suez. Charles Kennedy used almost exactly the same words when addressing his own party conference a few weeks ago. Ken Clarke and Sir Malcolm Rifkind have each echoed this terminology in separate remarks to Conservative audiences.
Yet the evidence is that Suez was a military success but a political failure. Anglo-French soldiers put the Egyptian Air Force out of action with aplomb in 1956 and seized Port Said within 24 hours of landing there. But as a result of this action, Arab nationalism was fanned, not flattened.

I always considered it a shame Eisenhower didn't support the Brits and the French, while at the same time did nothing against the Russian invading Hungary. Afterwards of course, you had Nasser wanting to destroy Israel, the oil embargo, france leaving NATO. We musn't give up on an allie again!