Posted on 08/23/2005 2:29:37 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
We all respect Hagel for his bravery in Vietnam but when it comes to policy Hagel leaves a lot to be desired.
Vietnam was a nationalism fight, the jihadists in Iraq want to use Iraq as a launching pad for terrorist attacks on our homeland. We have seen in the past that when we retreated from Lebanon, Somalia, USS Cole that made us look weak in Bin Laden's eyes and emboldened them. Bin Laden has specifically referred to us cutting and running from Somalia as making the US look weak in his eyes and a green light to attack us. Their defeat over the russians in afganistan emboldened them too.
Hagel is also playing into the Sheehan crowd that if we just leave the terrorists will leave us alone. We were hit first on 9/11, we weren't taking the fight to the enemy and look what that got us.
Doesn't Hagel know that Zarqawi was committing terrorist attacks before the iraq war? Hagel is proposing that we retreat and leave a taliban like rule with training camps just like afganistan was. Hagel will then be one of the first ones saying we should have done more if Zarqawi hits our homeland. Same people that complain about us getting hit on 9/11 are the same people that want us to cut and run from Iraq and embolden the jihadists like they were emboldened in afganistan when the russians cut and ran.
Hagel is very dangerous he also thinks the israelis shouldn't respond when hit by terrorist attacks by the palestinians. He is so wrong on so many levels.
Vietnam was a "nationalism" fight? Tell that to Chairman Mao and Brezhnev, without whose support your supposed "nationalists" would still be north of the DMZ.
I used the wrong phrase, I meant that it was a regional fight, the enemy wasn't going to launch attacks on our shores after we left, like the jihadists in the middle east will do.
I used the wrong phrase, I meant that it was a regional fight that the enemy wasn't going to launch attacks on our homeland after we left like the jihadists in the middle east have shown they will do when emboldened.
Hagel needs to tuck his tie in his shirt, so that
everyone can recognise what he is.
I think the foul air of the beltway has corrupted Mr.Hagel.
I respect his Military service far more than I can Hanoi
John Kerry's But like Kerry and McCain --and that former
politician whose wheelchair rolls left (his name escapes me
but he prides himself as having gone from representing the
VA to representing his State--neither of which he seemed very good at doing) Mr.Hagel and his peers seem prove
being a good soldier does not necessarily mean one is a good political operative.
Hagel only dropped the V-word as a trial balloon for his Presidential aspirations, IMHO. Anyone in politics knows that when you compare anything current to Vietnam, you are firing a shot across the bow of the administration. Not a friendly ranging shot, either. But he's firing on his own ship.
Hagel has committed an atrocity. It stands in all it's squalor despite your meager protestations.
More watching,less talking. Might just learn something.
Max Cleland, our former Senator.
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