January 10, 2007

Kennedy's Revealing Analogy

Indeed, this analogy is much more revealing about Ted Kennedy and his fellow cut-and-runners than it is about the President today -- or in 1967.

In Vietnam, the White House grew increasingly obsessed with victory, and increasingly divorced from the will of the people and any rational policy.

I'm sorry -- I always believe that during time of war the nation and its leaders are SUPPOSED TO BE obsessed with victory. And while I will agree that the Johnson Administration grew divorced from rational policy, that was because it was too connected with ephemeral public opinion and was unwilling to do the things necessary to secure the victory we were achieving militarily.

Instead, it is obvious that Kennedy and company are obsessed with ensuring that we lose the war in Iraq, just as like they were forty years ago. Even though the United States was winning in Vietnam by any objective measure, a certain segment of the American populace lost their will and demanded defeat at any price.

And the lessons of April, 1975, show us the next step will be by Kennedy & Co., as we abandon our allies to defeat and destruction at the hands of an enemy that has the will to win and is not troubled by "public opinion".

Confirming, of course, that the United States is a paper tiger, unwilling and unable to fight a sustained conflict despite its technological and numerical superiority.

Posted by: Greg at 01:39 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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"a certain segment of the American populace lost their will and demanded defeat at any price."


That sums up why America cannot win now or as long as that segment holds sway in Washington and owns the major media outlets.  We are drowning in a constant pool of self pity created by folks who never have and never will understand the concepts of honor, integrity, and the price of freedom.  They are a bunch of spoiled brats who have been spoon fed the lie of entitlements, and have included among those entitlements, freedom from paying the price of freedom.


Posted by: T F Stern at Wed Jan 10 15:59:21 2007 (z1IoH)

2 Ah, Greg -- what innocence to think that, in the modern age, war is about winning.  No, no, my friend. War is about . . . .  Well, I'm not really quite sure.  You see, I also thought war was about winning, and I'm having problems coming up with alternative scenarios for the way in which a nation should approach war. 

Just today, I heard Tony Snow say that, with the Democratic majority in Congress, the White House is really going to put pressure on the Dems to state explicitly just what they want from this war, and what they expect to happen, genocide-wise, if they get the withdrawal they've been demanding for so long.

Posted by: Bookworm at Thu Jan 11 12:52:59 2007 (+jmyR)

3 I know what the outcome will be if the Left succeeds in shutting this war down the way they want -- I saw it first-hand as a twelve-year-old on Guam when the streams of refugees came flooding onto the island during the final days of the Republic of South Vietnam.

I visited the refugee camps, tutored refugee children my own age, and listened to their stories of the horrors inflicted by the Communists. I expect the Islamists to be less civilized.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Thu Jan 11 13:13:22 2007 (44XVi)

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