[PhilDragoo]

I came upon The Day It Became The Longest War in the May 1996 Proceedings. I copied and faxed it out before it became available online.

In four pages the author recreates the tension in the room as the Joint Chiefs pitched the bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong--only to be cursed and thrown out by Johnson.

The picking of targets, the allowance of sanctuaries, the incrementalism--had it been left to the warriors, Giap would've been dead rather than writing a memoir.

I was privileged to assist in a small way Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam. A treason indictment by the authors using transcripts of radio broadcasts archived in Colorado Springs. A road not taken by Nixon for fear of the power of Hollywood and the rest of the Leftist propaganda industry.

Two million more slaughtered in Cambodia, all thanks to arrogant fools conducting the effort, abetted by such vermin as Fonda, Kerry, Cronkite.

A victory by our warriors over the enemy's Tet Offensive spun as our defeat--

Johnson, MacNamara, Cronkite, Kerry, Fonda et al are accountable here for their actions here.

Now we suffer the treason and lies of Obama who disarms for the KGB assassin, who dismantles missile defense for the Rat Boy Holocaust Denier, who kills the F-22 for the Butchers of Tiananmen.

Gates, coauthor with Zbigniew Brzezinski of the 2004 CFR paper "Iran: Time for a New Approach" thinks it fine to lay down arms and parley with the nutcase creating the chaos to coax the Twelfth Imam from the well near Qum.

The Republic will survive because of the brave whose fight purifies the nation of the abomination of the few.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump, Phil !!

[mckenzie7]

Your post 268 says it all for me.

Just think (maybe that is too painful)of the damage that all of these incompetents under Obama and Obama himself will create.

[colorado tanker]

There is an excellent piece in today’s Journal editorial page about this guy. Bottom line is Ike was the wise man and super-intelligent McNamara was the fool. Of course, that’s not how today’s government and media see it, because they have the same disease as Mac.

[cherry]

"The Republic will survive because of the brave whose fight purifies the nation of the abomination of the few."

I hope you are right......I just hope you are right....

[BOBTHENAILER]

Now we suffer the treason and lies of Obama who disarms for the KGB assassin, who dismantles missile defense for the Rat Boy Holocaust Denier, who kills the F-22 for the Butchers of Tiananmen.

This one, and your subsequent essays on this subject are dead solid perfect. McNamara and his elite ilk and their naive policies were responsible for the death of many, many a man far better than them.