After 6 months??? This punk ass has the gall to say that after 12 years of the JFK-LBJ Vietnam adventure? And you neo-haters buy this crap? We lose 50 guys in 4 months and lets all panic? Damn...we lost 3,000 people in 90 minutes on Sept. 11th. At this point in WWII we were getting our asses kicked in the pacific against a single enemy. And now Bush has to win the War on Terror in 2 years against a worldwide religious-based enemy??? You people need to get a grip before you buy this nonsense. Robert Kuttner is a class A scumbag. As are the losers he quotes in this utterly absurd article. James Rubin (Mr. Amanpour...yeah he's unbiased)? Certifiable DAVID OBEY??? He might as well quote Cynthia McKinney.
It made sense to take out Hussein, and it makes sense to remove regimes in Iran, Syria, "Palestine" and yes even Saudi Arabia. Anything that weakens the Muslim world and its terror base makes Americans safer.
And as for Rummy, how can you possibly compare his errors in underestimation with those of Eisenhower, who's blunders before the Bulge cost the lives of tens of thousands of men. And that was at the END of WWII, this is just the beginning. Rumsfeld is doing a damn good job...stand behind him, dammit! Or do you want Saudi ass-kissing Powell running the ship? Think long and hard before you make common cause with leftwing scum like Kuttner because of some vague paranoia about "Neo-Conservatives".
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.