The left seems to think that Iraq is like Vietnam, what they fail to recognize is that after we abandoned the Vietnamese, the Viet Cong didn't have any intention of coming to the United States to kill us.
I seriously believe that everytime a troop is brutally murdered, a 2008 democratic anti-war candidate smiles
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Media Forget History of American Constitution When Reporting on Iraq's
Posted by John Armor on October 12, 2005 - 14:26.
And... after we left Vietnam, Polpot when on a killing spree in Cambodia, killing millions. Same thing will probably happen there if we leave too early.
Those of us who have lived through the VietNam era remember all to well the hatchet job done by the media and the anti-American movements. They convinced America, based on the false testimony of those like John Kerry, "Hanoi" Jane and a willing Congress, etc. to abandon VietNam and the US military. Too many of us are still around and that wound will never be healed.
It means the same thing that the Vietnam war did - that the U.S. must never be allowed to take an action, especially not a military action, that is not approved in advance by internationalists and in the interest of the advancement of internationalism and the detriment of nationalism. That internationalism was identified with world socialism for a very long time and still carries that cachet.
What that implies in practical terms is that a U.S. failure in any policy represents a step toward an idealized future, the exact mechanism of which is theoretical and murky but believed in with all the fervor of a religious fanatic. The left has lost its collective vision of where it is going; all that remains is a certainty that where it is must be wrong.
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They sure are invested in an American defeat. They've opposed this thing from the start. A defeat would allow them to say, "We told you so." Big boost for the Left's belief in it's own infallibility.
We shouldn't allow the Left to get away with lying about the situation in Iraq.
I believe that most citizens in this country would be supporting this war almost 100% were it not for the lies and propaganda of the left supplied to us by their lap dog media.
I usually explain it this way: The left thinks we can afford to lose this, I don't.
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Good post!
We all want the troops out now. It is just the matter of who wants to see them have the chance to complete the job. I, for one, want to see them get the job done and come home soon.
I sometimes question if the left wants an American loss over an American win.......
(Denny Crane: "I like nature. Don't talk to me about the environment".)
(Denny Crane: "I like nature. Don't talk to me about the environment".)
Actually, after we left, it didn't matter what their intentions were -- they had very little capability left. We gutted them, killed a generation of their most committed cadres. They couldn't even take over Cambodia after we finished with them, much less Bangkok and Singapore.
And they couldn't even begin to think about joining a great Communist crusade to follow us home and clean us out.
These other guys are another matter. Different contest -- it's barely 1952, in terms of the Indochinese War.