Posted on 07/17/2009 5:15:12 PM PDT by Mmogamer
Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite has died at age 92, The New York Times reports.
The “Ted” Offensive? Are you kidding?
I haven’t logged in in a while. Sorry for the delay responding:
I think the best way to respond is to cite former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer:
“SCHEUER: Well, look at our borders, Sir. If National Defense doesn’t include border control, then National Defense is a nonsense. They don’t care — look at the jobs they have given to the men and women in Afghanistan that are impossible to do. They don’t care that so many of those young men and women are losing their lives, and not having a chance to win because they’re not supported.
They want to play games at home. They want to stay in power forever. They want their office. They don’t want to protect the United States. They somehow think that America is eternal and can never be defeated. Well, they’re going to be in for a great wakeup call, Sir.”
Jeff,
Hadn’t logged in in quite a while. So this is very delayed.
When Cronkite turned America against the war (and essentially made considering the war “a lost cause” publicly acceptable), America transitioned from “winning” to “getting out.”
For all the ferocity of Nixon’s bombing, it was nevertheless done with the intent of getting the best deal at the negotiations as he could get.
It was ultimately the Democratic Party - and the left’s - opposition to the war that wore down public opinion.
Tragically, we abandoned “victory” just as it was literally within our sight.
Reagan defined victory rather well: “We win, they lose.”
Tragically, the days of “We win, they lose” seem to be gone from the American lexicon.
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