Dems sense the surge is working and that support for the war will rise as will the approval ratings for the president.
Their new bs line will be: See? If we hadn’t pressured the administration to change course none of these improvements would have happened.
“Dems sense the surge is working and that support for the war will rise as will the approval ratings for the president.”
As another veteran of the Vietnam era (no combat) I must say that MY hope is rising.
I have been frankly disillusioned by what I perceive to be a repeat of the political machinations that lost the war for us in Vietnam.
No, I am NOT talking about the Democratic opposition!
I am talking about what I sense is an unwillingness by this administration to tell the American people in no uncertain terms what we are up against, and to prosecute this war with the ruthlessness that is required.
I cannot support a war in which we piss away more American lives like we did in Vietnam: The concept of going on patrol, engaging the enemy, suffering and inflicting casualties, and then failing to hold the area (war of attrition) will NEVER stop an insurgency.
It didn’t in Vietnam and it won’t in Iraq.
If that’s the type of war we intend to run, then we might as well bring the troops home and we can all sit around on the front porch with rifles and a case of beer, swapping war stories until we can “see the whites of their eyes”.
I am delighted by the results of the surge, but will we follow through?
I suspect a significant percentage of the anti-war movement feels the way they do for the reasons I just stated.
If the follow through is there, then the tide may turn.