Although I was too young to realize it back then, I am begginning to understand why we abandoned Vietnam. The mainstream media kept portraying military victories as military defeats. They brainwashed the public into thinking the war was lost and not worth fighting. Much like the Modern left is doing today. Back then however, the North Vietnamese were not a threat to our homeland. Today we know that Islamic Terrorism is a realized threat to our homeland. To abandon the war on terror is to abandon our future freedom. Unless of course you actually want to pray to Saudi Arabia every day.
True, but it was a reflection of the fact that the enemy wasn't going to give up and go away, and that there would be no exit from Vietnam and no end to the war. I don't know if that's true of Iraq, but it's worth thinking more about what we are really capable of doing in the world before we intervene.
Amen.