This is how it went during Vietnam. If we don't push back, the left and the terrorists will win the propaganda battle. Americans don't lose wars on the battlefield--we lose them at home
Can we please stop with this desperate need on both the Political Right and Left to make everything an analogy for Vietnam? This war is NOTHING like Vietnam. I should write a thread about all the difference between the two! Rather then hyperventilating about some wacko leftist rent a mob staging a propaganda demonstration that they can brag up in their next fund raising letter to aging boomer trust fund babies, let us treat them as the irrelevant fringe wackos they are. In case you all haven't noticed, they have staged thousands of similar little propaganda ploys in the last 2 years. What they do not seem to realize is just how irrelevant they are. Bush is President until Jan 2009 and there is not ONE thing the Hysteric Left can do about it
Disagree.
We (regular, conservative folk) ignore them. The media reports (most often glowingly) on their little tantrum marches. They continue to hold these "peace marches" and "peace vigils" and we continue to ignore them. The media continues to report on them. Their numbers grow, as their infrastructure refines itself and they focus their message and recruit more grieving family members to be their frontline spokesmen.
And the other regular folks, those without any strong political allegiances, see those news reports; and not seeing any counter viewpoint being reported, will begin to think, "Hmmmm... maybe the war IS a bad thing. Maybe I should send these poor, goodhearted peace folks some money. And maybe I should call my congressman and tell him to get us out of Iraq."
Sow doubt. Sow dissent.
So then we have a repeat of Vietnam. That's my take on it.