The American people have now spoken, and once again they have spat upon America’s Vietnam Veterans. Now for their “just rewards.”
Karma
Barack Hussein Obama, a man with no record of personal accomplishment, no leadership experience, and a man with strong connections to terrorists, racists, and anti-American communists has pulled it off and has now been elected President of these United States, so what does it mean and what does it say about the American people? Could it be that karma will now bestow the consequences of dishonorable behavior on the American people? Why do I say this? In answer to my question, let me remind you of this statement and where these words took the American people:
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural address, Friday, January 20, 1961
With these words ringing in our ears, my generation went to Vietnam and promised the Vietnamese people we would stand shoulder to shoulder with them until their freedom was secure and the enemies of liberty were defeated. But, it is to America’s eternal shame and disgrace that the American people soon grew tired of this noble undertaking and betrayed the very people who had believed and trusted us.
Then, as now, the American people elected Democrats to our Congress who had rather see American soldiers killed and our country defeated than allow a Republican president to receive credit for defeating our enemies. This Democrat led Congress (the infamous 93rd) cut off funding for the Vietnam War and forced the withdrawal of American combat troops in 1973, but we departed with the hollow promise that we would return if the Republic of South Vietnam were invaded by communist North Vietnam. As everyone must remember, this, again, was a lie.
The tactic we had taught the South Vietnamese was to, when invaded by the North, fall back to a defendable position, stall the communist advance, force the communists to mass their forces before South Vietnam’s defenses, and this would allow time for American forces and air power to return to assist them as we had promised. South Vietnam did just that; for twelve days, outnumbered ten to one, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) held and stalled the communist’s advance outside Saigon at a little town called Xuan Loc.
Outside Xuan Loc during April 1975, in an effort as gallant as that of the Spartans at Thermopile, the ARVN 18th Infantry Division held two North Vietnamese Army Corps at bay for twelve days. Every infantryman in the ARVN 18th Infantry Division died in that stand. None ran away and none survived. They died to a man fighting overwhelming odds and believing to the end we Americans would return as promised.
Just before the last ARVN soldier of the 18th Infantry Division died, he might have rolled over on his back and looked to the sky hoping to see the contrails of American B-52 bombers and he saw nothing; this last ARVN soldier then knew that he, along with all the Vietnamese people, had been betrayed. With his dying breath this last ARVN soldier must have then turned his gaze heavenly and beseeched God to Damn America.
Yes, there is such a thing as karma where dreadful consequences are meted out in recompense for dishonorable behavior. The American people’s just rewards for abandoning a valiant ally during their time of need is that the chickens will now come home to roost on the American people with an Obama Presidency, a Nancy Pelosi Congress and a Harry Reid Senate, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving people.
This election has been about more than just Obama, his arrogance, his empty resume, and his traitorous comrades. Just as karma provides consequences for dishonorable behavior, there are also adverse consequences for irresponsible behavior. As a people deserve the government they vote into office, they also deserve the consequences resulting from that government’s actions or inaction. The consequences of a government not securing a country’s borders is that a people will lose their country as we are now losing ours to an invasion of illegal immigrants. The consequences of not securing a country’s electoral processes to prevent voter fraud is that the country will lose its democracy to a thuggocracy as we have now lost ours to a Chicago mob-run Coup d’état.
But the final insult to our democracy is that the election of Barack Hussein Obama, an avowed Marxist communist, will close a significant chapter in American History. Our sixty-year Cold War with communism is finally over and the communists have won the war.
As we Americans continue to live out the old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
Outstanding.
Excellent reply.
BUMP!
I agree with you (for the most part) about Vietnam...though I’m not at all sure Kennedy et al. should have promised them our defense in the first place. AFTER that though, we were honor-bound to stay and fight though...and the hippies who later got Obama elected made us run like cowards.
Bigger than our betrayal to Vietnam...and an issue Boortz is (also) blind about, is the 50,000,000 of our own children Americans have willingly terminated after the Court forced allowance of abortion in Roe v. Wade. Even Hitler “only” murdered about 20,000,000 civilians.... So the people of the “land of the free and the brave” have surpassed his horror....
I firmly believe Obama is the beginning of serious chastisement on America, as our sins are very grave.
It is no coincidence that just as the WWII vets are going to glory, our nation now faces dishonor and grim judgment. God is merciful to the heroes, not allowing their eyes to behold this nation’s sure decline and fall.
I woke up again this morning and the nightmare wasn’t over. I’m hoping to not live long enough to see 2009.
Excellent and sobering post.
I wonder how long FR has to exist now.
Your eloquent and truthful post made me cry for the first time over this sham of an election. Since last night I’ve been too stunned to even cry, but your post turned on the water works. No small feat for me for any reason.
The blatant voter fraud of this election is serious, and I don’t envision anyone really challenging it. As someone posted on the election thread last night, the ballot box is gone, the soap box is next. We are not living in a Republic any more... perhaps we haven’t been for some time now.
Thank you for your post. I didn’t know about that detail of the ending of the Vietnam war. Now I loath the left even more.
I would like to pass your post on to others with your permission.
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1O LORD, God of vengeance,
O God of vengeance, shine forth!
2 Rise up, O judge of the earth;
repay to the proud what they deserve!
3O LORD, how long shall the wicked,
how long shall the wicked exult?
4They pour out their arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.
5They crush your people, O LORD,
and afflict your heritage.
6They kill the widow and the sojourner,
and murder the fatherless;
7 and they say, "The LORD does not see;
the God of Jacob does not perceive."8 Understand, O dullest of the people!
Fools, when will you be wise?
9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear?He who formed the eye, does he not see? 10He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?He who teaches man knowledge—
11 the LORD—knows the thoughts of man,
that they are but a breath.12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD,
and whom you teach out of your law,
13to give him rest from days of trouble,
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not forsake his people;
he will not abandon his heritage;
15for justice will return to the righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.16 Who rises up for me against the wicked?
Who stands up for me against evildoers?
17 If the LORD had not been my help,
my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
18When I thought, "My foot slips,"
your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
19When the cares of my heart are many,
your consolations cheer my soul.
20Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who frame injustice by statute?
21They band together against the life of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.
22But the LORD has become my stronghold,
and my God the rock of my refuge.
23He will bring back on them their iniquity
and wipe them out for their wickedness;
the LORD our God will wipe them out.
Psalm 94
Cordially,
My tagline since election night invokes karma.