Posted on 11/13/2006 6:21:57 AM PST by teddyballgame
Now the Democrats are in control of Congress, with the tacit implication that things will be different. Their actual plans are not at all clear. The danger is that they’ll act now just as irresponsibly as they did during earlier crises. Those of us old enough to remember the Democratic response to Vietnam in the 70s and Central America in the 80s have very little faith in claims of political maturity. (Particularly since the party’s progressive wing – no less than 62 representatives – is meeting with none other than George McGovern, the apostle of spinelessness, for the purpose of planning a complete withdrawal from Iraq “by next June”.)
In both cases, the response was, not to put too fine a point on it, to cut and run. In Southeast Asia, cut and run resulted in the deaths of several million between the Cambodia Year Zero massacres and the flight of the Boat People from Vietnam. The Nicaraguans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans were luckier. The opposition – disdainfully termed the “Contras” by the American left – held out until free elections took place, unseating the Sandinistas and ending the threat. (And here we have none other than Danny Ortega back in office! How’s that for a divine tap on the shoulder?)
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To be fair, McGovern flew 25 missions over Germany in a B-24 during World War Two. He is not a coward. I do call him dead wrong in politics.
It's defined as insanity. Doing the same thing the same way over and over and expecting a different result. The leftists are, have been, and will continue to be unhinged. The evil and the damange they do long outlasts their presence.
There are people—there is no discreet way to put this—who pulled the lever last Tuesday that began the process of their own deaths.
Moreover, to be fair, McGovern did oppose the cutting off of funding that doomed South Vietnam, did he not? I could be wrong. I'm no fan of his at all. He was a disaster. But if I remember correctly, he did at least recognize the bloodbath that would follow.
That says nothing at all about what he may be advising about Iraq. It's not a good sign that the Dhimmis are calling this wraithe back to talk to them. But in fairness, if he did oppose their perfidy on Vietnam in 1974 and 1975, it deserves to be known. If not, then go ahead and rip him to shreds remorselessly.
Moreover, to be fair, McGovern did oppose the cutting off of funding that doomed South Vietnam, did he not? I could be wrong. I'm no fan of his at all. He was a disaster. But if I remember correctly, he did at least recognize the bloodbath that would follow.
That says nothing at all about what he may be advising about Iraq. It's not a good sign that the Dhimmis are calling this wraithe back to talk to them. But in fairness, if he did oppose their perfidy on Vietnam in 1974 and 1975, it deserves to be known. If not, then go ahead and rip him to shreds remorselessly.
"I just finished reading this article at The American Thinker and checked to see if it was posted. You're so correct, it is depressing."
What can I say, great minds think alike.
"To be fair, McGovern flew 25 missions over Germany in a B-24 during World War Two. He is not a coward. I do call him dead wrong in politics."
Yeah, and Murtha served in the Marines and Jimmy Carter was in the Navy. Just because these people served in the military doesn't mean their judgement can be 100% wrong.
When the jihadists hit us again in the USA {and they will} what will the demonRATS say and do then? We made them mad by not getting out of iraq fast enough.
Simple. Bush is CIC and it will be all his fault. You watch.
This ardent left wing fanatic backed every tactic by the ACLU and NOW gang, thought the media was negligent in saying anything nice about Republicans, and utterly despised the growing popularity of talk radio (especially without the safeguards of the Fairness Doctrine.) Only Josef Stalin was further left than this ideologue who should be a strident bell-weather for the direction the "new" leadership is setting to blow.
For the next two years, everything that goes well in the US will be because of the Dem Congress and everything that goes badly will be the President's fault. The leftist DBM is not finished yet. Will W ever learn to stand up to a bully? It has been his biggest failing IMHO.
Same - but his failure to stand up is because he's a lot more liberal than a lot of people here want to think. His presser with Mz Pelosi was just disgusting IMO, and to meet and play kissy face with Reid who called him a loser is just wrong.
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