Posted on 08/12/2007 9:03:37 AM PDT by Contentions
It’s time to declare victory and go home. That was the formula that Senator George Aiken famously suggested for Vietnam in 1966. Today, it bears relevance to Iraq. No, not to the U. S. military presence in that country, but to the Democrats in Congress.
Since November, the Pelosi-Reid Democrats have demonstrated shocking disdain for the well-being of our country. Their only concern has been to defeat or embarrass George W. Bush. Once, one of the noblest American traditions held that politics stops at the water’s edge. But, for the Pelosi-Reid Democrats, it seems that the inverse is true: namely, that national interests stop when the opportunity arises for partisan point-scoring.
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Dems sense the surge is working and that support for the war will rise as will the approval ratings for the president.
Their new bs line will be: See? If we hadn’t pressured the administration to change course none of these improvements would have happened.
“Dems sense the surge is working and that support for the war will rise as will the approval ratings for the president.”
As another veteran of the Vietnam era (no combat) I must say that MY hope is rising.
I have been frankly disillusioned by what I perceive to be a repeat of the political machinations that lost the war for us in Vietnam.
No, I am NOT talking about the Democratic opposition!
I am talking about what I sense is an unwillingness by this administration to tell the American people in no uncertain terms what we are up against, and to prosecute this war with the ruthlessness that is required.
I cannot support a war in which we piss away more American lives like we did in Vietnam: The concept of going on patrol, engaging the enemy, suffering and inflicting casualties, and then failing to hold the area (war of attrition) will NEVER stop an insurgency.
It didn’t in Vietnam and it won’t in Iraq.
If that’s the type of war we intend to run, then we might as well bring the troops home and we can all sit around on the front porch with rifles and a case of beer, swapping war stories until we can “see the whites of their eyes”.
I am delighted by the results of the surge, but will we follow through?
I suspect a significant percentage of the anti-war movement feels the way they do for the reasons I just stated.
If the follow through is there, then the tide may turn.
“I am talking about what I sense is an unwillingness by this administration to tell the American people in no uncertain terms what we are up against, and to prosecute this war with the ruthlessness that is required.”
Yes.
The other part of it is the new tone idiocy which has resulted in the left setting a defeatist agenda without fear of being called on it.
I also put part of the blame on the upper echelons of the military. Instead of going for the win early on, they grew complacent and frittered away a 40 point half time lead. How much of that was the fault of Gen Casey or the idiot paul brenner is hard to figure, but nevertheless it happened.
Hope the team can pull out the game in the 4th quarter.
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