Pat Buchanan: A 'Tet' Moment Coming

Creator's Syndicate ^ | December 8, 2005 | Pat Buchanan

[NormsRevenge]

Those who have no faith in their cause whether they like it or not are nothing but pretenders to the crown.

They neither deserve to wear it or be listened to when they criticize it.

[sinkspur]

If his generals come to him, then, and say: Mr. President, we have to stop the withdrawals and may need more troops to stave off a collapse -- what does Bush do?

He will give them more troops. Pull them out of Germany, out of Korea, out of Bosnia.

There is nothing more important than making a successful stand in Iraq.

[XHogPilot]

As our moment of truth in Vietnam came in the Tet Offensive of 1968 that broke Lyndon Johnson, Bush's "Tet moment" is coming in Iraq, almost surely in 2006

Tet was an unequivocal US military victory. It was described as a US defeat by US politicians and the MSM. I'd say that's exactly where we are today vis a vis Iraq. No need to wait until 2006. Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean have already declared it.

[sageb1]

Waiting for the Buchanan bashers. When I'm at my grouchiest, I always think of Pat.

[msnimje]

Things are not as bad in Iraq as many hope.

[msnimje]

Bashing Pat Buchanan is no fun anymore. He has taken all of the sport out of it.

[Petronski]

That's odd. When I'm at my happiest, I thank God I'm not Pat.

[snarks_when_bored]

If we can't defeat the insurgency in Iraq, China will understand the significance of that. After the 2008 Olympics, they will simply annex Taiwan, daring us to oppose them. If we don't oppose them (as we've promised Taiwan we would), no country in the world would have reason to expect us to help them in their time of need and so they will make every effort to accomodate themselves to China and its wishes. The real beginning of the twilight of America will have begun.

It appears that the Democrats care nothing for any of that. They're intent on grabbing back the reins of power, without any regard for the health of the horse they'd be riding if they succeeded.

[Minus_The_Bear]

I'm surprised PAt left out his usual culprit: Those evil Jooooos

[dc-zoo]

Ok.. who gives a damn what Pat thinks?

[sageb1]

lol!

And you've been pretty happy lately, so the grapevine goes :)

[Prost1]

Iraq becomes a fully sovereign nation when they ratify their constitution on the 15th of December.

They are not a member of the U.N. nor are they a signatory to the Geneva Convention. With 200,000 troops, not all fully trained, they can still engage the enemy the Arab way. With vengenance, violence and torture.

As a sage once remarked, "be careful of what you ask, for you may receive it!" Our pull down, their independence, marks a turning point the enemies fear and their enemies include the MSM.

[familyop]

"...in Bush's phrase, we are going to face a moment when our Iraqis are going to have to engage and defeat an insurgency we have been unable to beat with 150,000 of the best-trained anti-insurgency troops in the world."

Not only has Patty shown his true colors with his paranoid ramblings about a US Zionist conspiracy and his words of admiration for Hitler, he spouts anti-American lies about historic military events. The insurgency continues to leak in from Buchanan's favored nations, and we won the Tet Offensive before our government pulled our soldiers out of Nam. Go peddle your own potatoes, Patty.

[Mo1]

As U.S. forces are drawn down and Iraqi forces "stand up," in Bush's phrase, we are going to face a moment when our Iraqis are going to have to engage and defeat an insurgency we have been unable to beat with 150,000 of the best-trained anti-insurgency troops in the world. What leads us to believe they can hack it, if, after three years, we couldn't?

Pat .. you are no different then the Democrats that you criticize

[ModelBreaker]

As our moment of truth in Vietnam came in the Tet Offensive of 1968 that broke Lyndon Johnson, Bush's "Tet moment" is coming in Iraq

Pat should know better than this. If there were truly a Tet moment in Iraq, that would me a massive defeat of the terrorists, crippling their organization. The only thing that made Tet a problem in Vietnam was Walter Cronkite declaring that a huge victory was in fact a smashing defeat. Of course the old media would try to say that about a similar event in Iraq. But today, we have media outlets to counter such lies. We didn't in 1968.

The reason Pat should know better is that he was in the Nixon administration. He was politically active in 1968 and surely he knows that he is lying thru his teeth in this characterization. He has gone over the edge--any lie is now justified to bring down the President and to undermine the war effort.

[MarkL]

I hate to say it, but I think that a huge mistake was made (and I didn't see it at the time), when it came to the idea of a Constitution for Iraq. There was talk about how successful the German and Japanese constitutions were after WWII, how we rebuilt those countries, gave them constitutions, and how well they've done since then.

The difference is that we handed them the consitutions, saying "This is the form of government you will live by." There was no nonsense of allowing them to come up with their "own form of government." IIRC, McArthur pretty much wronte the Japanese constitution himself.

I'm thinking that allowing Iraq to come up with their own form of government, as an islamic state is going to wind up biting us.

Mark

[Petronski]

The 'grapevine' is right...I'm VERY happy these days. ;OD

[LZ_Bayonet]

"As our moment of truth in Vietnam came in the Tet Offensive of 1968 that broke Lyndon Johnson, Bush's "Tet moment" is coming in Iraq, almost surely in 2006, when the insurgency appears to be growing in strength and confidence, and the new government appears shaky."

TET was not "our moment of truth" it was our "moment of lies". The MSM broke Johnson, not the defeated enemy. But, to paraphrase: 'I knew Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon Johnson was a Commander-in-Chief of mine. And George Bush is no Lyndon Johnson.'

[msnimje]

Iraq becomes a fully sovereign nation when they ratify their constitution on the 15th of December

The Iraqi's already ratified the Constitution in October. This election is for the first "permanent" (4 year) government as all previous governments have been temporary or transitional.