School uniforms are a plus too.
Posted on 05/01/2006 10:02:43 PM PDT by RWR8189
There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II.
For one thing, it is now unimaginable that we would use anything approaching the full measure of our military power (the nuclear option aside) in the wars we fight. And this seems only reasonable given the relative weakness of our Third World enemies in Vietnam and in the Middle East. But the fact is that we lost in Vietnam, and today, despite our vast power, we are only slogging along--if admirably--in Iraq against a hit-and-run insurgency that cannot stop us even as we seem unable to stop it. Yet no one--including, very likely, the insurgents themselves--believes that America lacks the raw power to defeat this insurgency if it wants to. So clearly it is America that determines the scale of this war. It is America, in fact, that fights so as to make a little room for an insurgency.
Certainly since Vietnam, America has increasingly practiced a policy of minimalism and restraint in war. And now this unacknowledged policy, which always makes a space for the enemy, has us in another long and rather passionless war against a weak enemy.
Why this new minimalism in war? It began, I believe, in a late-20th-century event that transformed the world more profoundly than the collapse of communism: the world-wide collapse of white supremacy as a source of moral authority, political legitimacy and even sovereignty. This idea had organized the entire world, divided up its resources, imposed the nation-state system across the globe, and delivered the majority of the world's population into servitude and oppression. After World War II, revolutions across the globe, from India to Algeria and from Indonesia to the American civil rights revolution, defeated the authority
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I am white and do not feel guilty about things I didn't do.
Because if the world understood the full extent of our military power and what we can do with it, they would demand the same capabilities, and refuse to trade with us until they got it.
I do not believe that we see ourselves as "fighting for our very survival." We say the platitudes, but we really don't think that the Islamofacists will really change our way of life like Hitler would have.
If we ever come to the point where the populace believes that our survival is threatened, expect the bombs to rain over ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE the terrorists may be hiding!
Ah, trying to make it a race issue. Just like the communists/socialists are trying to do.
we lost in Vietnam,
We didn't lose, we gave up.
Slow to anger, heavy handed. Crazier than any other collective group.
When we decide to destroy, the ware will end.
I do not believe that we see ourselves as "fighting for our very survival." We say the platitudes, but we really don't think that the Islamofacists will really change our way of life like Hitler would have.
If we ever come to the point where the populace believes that our survival is threatened, expect the bombs to rain over ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE the terrorists may be hiding!
The liberal response to your statement would be, "That's another thing you should feel guilty about! Feel guilty that you don't feel guilty."
(And if you STILL don't feel guilty, then you should feel guilty that you don't feel guilty about not feeling guilty).
LOL!!!
Touche' !!
I'll have to make time to read this. Maybe it will stop my white part from feeling guilty about what it did to my American Indian part.
> We didn't lose, we gave up.
Much worse than that!
We actually WON. Won bigtime. And then we left. The South Vietnamese defeated a major invasion with minimal help from our forces as we were leaving. Once we were gone, they defeated a second major invasion with NO help from our forces.
And then, the most leftist American Congress we've ever had (elected in reaction to Watergate) unilaterally abrogated all of our treaties with the South and totally cut off all resupply of arms, of munitions, of tank and jet fuel, of every basic thing an army and air force needs. It was treachery, plain and simple. Treachery of the vilest kind. What the Democrats in Congress did in '74-'75 was the single most shameful moment for America in my lifetime.
And while this was going on that last year, with an enfeebled Pres. Ford protesting but having zero effect on Congress, the USSR and China, smelling blood, rearmed North Vietnam to the teeth.
When the last invasion came, some South Vietnamese generals turned off their radios because they just could not emotionally bear to hear the pleas any more from their frontline officers begging for bullets, for shells, for tank fuel, for anything to help their forces fight. The generals had nothing to send them.
Thanks to the American Democratic Party, all that the South Vietnamese soldiers had to fight with that day were spitwads.
And how many of us back then even heard the truth of what was happening at that time? Not me. And I read virtually ALL the international news in our city paper and watched the evening news and read TIME cover to cover every week and naively thought myself "informed". HA!!!! Was I ever deluded.
The MSM - much more powerful then than now - did an outstanding job of covering for their darlings in Congress. All we heard was, "See? What'd we tell you? We lost. WE LOST! What have we been predicting all along? Boy, they sure fell fast like a house of cards, didn't they? We have no idea why. Our best guess is that the people of South Vietnam really wanted this liberation from the North to happen after all."
This still angers me no end to this day.
White guilt? LOL
"This still angers me no end to this day."
Thanks for the post. Woodward-Bernstein caused the defeat of Vietnam (with help from Dean and Felt - if he's telling the truth?).
It makes me mad too - sepecially when I hear the stories from Vietnamese friends of what went on after the fall.
And I'll be pissed off if we abandon Afghanistan or Iraq like the MSM and the Liberals would like.
School uniforms are a plus too.
bookmarked for later
While the europeans were building up their empires in what is now called the Third World, we were busy building our own nation and making money.
We didn't have anything to do with the Euros' crimes, but we end up paying the price.
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