AP Exclusive: Kissinger says military victory not possible in Iraq

Internat'l Herald Tribune via Drudge ^ | 4/01/07 | The Associated Press

[Robe]

TOKYO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible.

He also said he sympathizes with the troubles facing U.S. President George W. Bush.

"A 'military victory' in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible," Kissinger told The Associated Press in Tokyo, where he received an honorary degree from Waseda University.

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[yldstrk]

Well, we all know Kissinger is a self proclaimed expert and genius. Jut look what he did for us in Viet Nam.

[hsalaw]

Another loser from the past.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Kissinger lives in the past.

[Red Badger]

It is possible, if it's done right.............

[PajamaTruthMafia]

And familiar with declaring defeat.

If you want to know how to lose, just ask a loser.

[tobyhill]

Another Surrender Monkey!

[PGalt]

A military victory has already happened. The rest is up to the Iraqi people.

[A. Pole]

Well, we all know Kissinger is a self proclaimed expert and genius. Jut look what he did for us in Viet Nam.

Three questions:

What was the damage to USA caused by the withdrawal from Vietnam?

What was the damage caused to USA or Israel by the negotiations and compromise with the main enemy of Israel - Egypt?

What was the damage caused to USA and the world caused by the opening of China?

[snowrip]

Kissinger, the mastermind of our victorious triumph in Southeast Asia, joins Jimmy Carter as one of the preeminent, unassailable experts on the issues of our time.

/major sarc

[Dilbert56]

What a pathetic headline.

Here's what he said: "A 'military victory' in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible," Is there no shortcut the MSM will avoid in their rush to bash the President? They will take anything that can remotely be considered "anti-war" and push it to the headline.

The queen of elipses, Maureen Dowd, would be proud of the distortion.

[jveritas]

WOW!!! Kessinger spoke, I think we should surrender now (extreme sarcasm).

[GSlob]

Well, if one is to look at what it used to take in the past to achieve "military victory" as he defined it in inter-civilizational wars, he is right: it takes either a genocidal bloodbath like the early spread of islam or a civilizational surrender a la Japan 1945. Now, very few civilizations are organized around a hirohito.

[zarf]

It's not possible. We are not destoying we're trying to build something (whatever the hell it is).

In that context, there is no military victory.

[jveritas]

LOL…. Exactly. The man was never involved in any thing positive for the US. He was only involved in engineering defeats and surrenders.

[Robe]

The point that Kissinger misses is that with Vietnam they weren't committed to destroying all Western Civilization.
Radical Islam must be surgically removed from all society like the cancer it is. Kissinger honchoed the dismantling of the American commitment in SE Asia in concert with the Democratic congress who legislatively mandated redeployment and the mission of all US forces the theater.. Sound familiar????

[EyeGuy]

"A military victory has already happened."

Yes. And historically, a remrkable efficient one.

Too many, even here, forget that basic fact.

Only the US would prolong this, at great cost, with the supposedly beneficial exercise of nation-building.

[YOUGOTIT]

Kissinger is one of the ones that surrendered to the Communist North Vietnamese. So there is your answer.

[rhombus]

"A 'military victory' in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible,"

This was Kissinger's statement. It may be true but it hardly bolsters what the Democrats are supporting. In fact Kissinger warns of a sudden pullout and recommends training Iraqi troops.. just what Bush as been saying. The headline of course is geared to the moonbat ear which only hears the military can't do something, the war is useless, pull out now when Kissinger said nothing of the sort.

[aruanan]

In 1942 Kissenger would have said that a military victory over Germany, Italy, and Japan wasn't possible.