Posted on 08/25/2007 7:51:05 AM PDT by Laverne
Kristol is really stepping up to the plate with this article, imho.
President Bush is an awesome and powerful leader. I am proud to call him my President. He is one of the great visionaries.
We all need to support the President in this to win the war.
IMO history will judge President Bush kindly..
Rush spent most of the week saying this after Bush’s speech. Kristol, thankfully, is echoing...
I agree, remember how the left and the media (is there really a difference?) trashed Reagan the same way they trash Bush. Although I think the vitriol against this President is much more frequent and much more violent (although I’m older and wiser now and pay much more attention). When we win in Iraq, and we will, the media will try to spin it as a result of the democrats taking over congress, yada yada yada, blah, blah, blah.
History will shine brightly on President BUsh and his administration and history will mock today’s media as an organization who lost all sense of perspective, honor, and integrity.
Someone should tell Letterman that Bush is just doing his job and standing up to confused, corrupted, secular-humanist, anti-american liberals like himself. You don't need to be a visionary to see the forest for the trees.
Indeed it will judge him as one of the best president this country has ever had
“President Bush is an awesome and powerful leader.”
Agreed, he treats our military right and knows our history.
Now if he could only get his act together about the border.
I thought on FR it was the Weakly Standard.
***Now if he could only get his act together about the border.***
Mexican history will judge him highly on the border...
The Vietnam war was fought to delay and end the expansion of communisom in Asia. When the war started, Malaysia was under seige, the Philippines, Indonesia was a client of Russia, India was a socialist client of Russia, Burma was a communist state..things were going pretty badly for our side.
At the end of the war..Cambodia and Vietnam fell, but the other countries were on their way to establishing firm democracy. Today they are the economic Tigers and Vietnam was forced to repudiate communism and follow the capitalist road.
What would have happened if we had turned a left in 1964? Or 1968? We will never know, but thousands of Americans, Koreans, New Zealanders, Australians and Brits gave there lives to save Asia.
To turn and run in the face of an evil ideology is to condemn mankind.
Indeed! We must not fail in the Middle East. These are the right wars at the right time!
The Democrats keep trotting out the Vietnam canard as a weapon against the GOP. Its about damn time Pres. Bush whacked them with it. He needs to keep doing this over and over and over..... Hell, he should have been doing this for last 6+ years. Its driven me nuts that Bush lets these preening, leftist, a-holes get away with it.
Everyone, including Kristol, remembers his own Vietnam war.
The one I remember was an escalation begun by Kennedy and Johnson in an attempt to save a Catholic government imposed on a Buddhist majority by Dulles and Eisenhower to prevent a takeover of the entire country by Ho Chi Minh's army following its defeat of the colonialist French.
It's true we beat the North Vietnamese army but its also true that the Catholic South Vietnamese governments were wretched (Kennedy had the Diems (?) assassinated) and, without our soldiers, were totally incapable of surviving, let alone governing.
Kristol, a neocon, knows all this and is lying through his teeth, emphasizing the defeatism and propaganda of the media while ignoring the underlying corruption and incompetence of our allies and the thoroughly questionable morality of our entire endeavor.
Following the American Revolution between 1/3 and 1/6 of the colonists fled to Canada and elsewhere - and ours was quite a humane revolution. The French and Russian equivalents were much, much worse. So were the wars of the Reformation.
There were many, many Southeast Asians who collaborated with the French, worked with them, prospered under them, adopted their religion, manners, culture. These were going to suffer when the French were expelled. Our intervention only made their suffering worse.
She has way under reported the death figures. It was between 1 million to 3 million Vietnamese and up to 3 million to 6 million Cambodians. In the 3 years following the war. To put this into proportion, during the TEN years of the war about 1 million Vietnamese were killed.
Well, the thread almost made it to ten before the borderbots began trashing.
Funny how you do not attack Socialism. In the last century Socialism was responsible for 150 Million deaths and putting about 3 billion people into slavery. This compares to about 35 million killed in all the wars. American haters never mentioned these numbers when attacking our own country.
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