Posted on 01/29/2007 7:15:16 AM PST by kellynla
WASHINGTON - Many participants in Saturday’s “peace” demonstration on the Mall — including mainstream media journalists covering it — noted the parallels with the anti-war movement of the Vietnam era. Thousands demanded American withdrawal from a nation under siege by totalitarians bent on enslaving millions. Hollywood celebrities and Democrat politicians stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the speaker’s platform. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was even a weekend presence, via television from Switzerland, again telling the world how terrible is his country. All that was needed to complete this reconstruction in time was new photos of Jane Fonda consorting with insurgents killing Americans in Iraq in 2007, as she did with the North Vietnamese killing Americans in 1972.
There is, however, one fundamental difference between 1972 and 2007. We know today what comes after the marchers have boarded their buses and headed home, the speeches have ended and the politicians have voted their resolutions. Once the enemy celebrates their victory, blood begins flowing across the killing fields. In Vietnam, millions of South Vietnamese were murdered within weeks of the North’s April 1975 triumph, millions more spent years in brutal “re-education camps” and yet more millions became boat people fleeing the slaughter. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge created a Hell on earth that killed millions more innocents. Eventually, millions of Afghanis died because the Soviets were emboldened by America’s defeat in Vietnam to send the Red Army streaming into Afghanistan.
If the “peace” movement succeeds in defeating America again, the blood will again flow across the killing fields, but this time it will create even more unimaginable horror and it will not all be in distant lands far removed from our comfortable neighborhoods here at home. The slaughter of Shia and Sunni in the streets of Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq will only be the beginning of the mass killing that will follow American defeat. With the Americans gone, al-Qaida will have a secure breeding ground from which to launch countless terrorists attacks against the U.S. and its allies around the world and here in America. Turkey will send troops into Northern Iraq and kill or otherwise eliminate all possibility of an independent Kurdistan. Jihadist radicals in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world will foment massacres, bombings and assassinations aimed at overthrowing remaining moderate regimes.
Worse yet, Iran will be emboldened to advance its timetable for becoming the dominant power in the Middle East and millions of Jews in Israel will be incinerated, along with hundreds of thousands of neighboring Palestinians, when the world sees the bright flash of Ahmadinejab’s nuclear program consumated in a second Holocaust.
It is difficult to say what America winning in Iraq will look like other than that a stable democratic regime will be in place and al-Qaida will be denied a new sanctuary. There is no such difficulty, however, in saying what America losing in Iraq will look like — a bloodbath of incalculable horror. Are the demonstrators and their allies in Congress and the media prepared to carry that burden on their consciences?
"Thousands demanded American withdrawal from a nation under siege by totalitarians bent on enslaving millions."
Exactly!
This article is right on the money!
They are so filled with rage they like it when totalitarians butcher thousands or millions. They secretly wish they could do the same. They picture themselves the executioners, never the executed.
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Are the demonstrators and their allies in Congress and the media prepared to carry that burden on their consciences?
The problem with this last statement is the assumption that Liberals have a conscience. They do not!
That's why we must ever be vigilant about keeping our guns.
We know why you were there.
"Are the demonstrators and their allies in Congress and the media prepared to carry that burden on their consciences?"
They'll just blame it all on Bush.
Wow! I never knew the Examiner had such cajones.
Yes, they are. Hate and rage mixed with ignorance and denial; these libs want American defeat. We withdrawal now, the terrorists will come here and kill us in many more 9/11s. These lib kooks must be defeated in 2008. Victory or death--that is the real choice for America.
Sure they are. As long as America loses, they don't give a damn how many die. They didn't care about Southeast Asia 30 years ago, and they don't care about the Mideast today.
Those bozos tout their opposition to the Vietnam War as a badge of honor. Funny how they never mention the 2 million murdered in Cambodia and the boat people desperate to escape the new worker's paradise in Vietnam.
This is the legacy of the hippies.
Excellent column. Doesn't Bill Sammon work for the Examiner these days? This almost seems like something he'd write.
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And here is the root cause of the ME turmoil we have today. It all goes back to Vietnam, which ultimately enabled what we're seeing today. If Russia hadn't moved into Afghanistan, the Taliban might not have ever been.
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