I am not so sure it was actually planned that way but it sure turned out that way. It was a tactical loss in a border campaign and ultimately a strategic victory against the USSR. But, that Victory had in it the seeds of the next Long War in which we are now engaged and in which, as in the last one, the enemy is well represented here at home on the political Left.
Yeah, many of them are the same Marxist freaks from the 1960’s. Now they have gray hair, bald spots, pot bellies and varicose veins. These people form the core of the movement today. Their colleagues have moved into Congress, the news media, Hollywood and academia. The 2004 election was a baby-boomer fight between an antiwar traitor and a Texas fighter pilot.