Don't you hate these damn liberals with their incessant Vietnam comparisons? Why won't they let it go?
[...] In Iraq, as in Vietnam, we face a vicious insurgency that has worn down the will of the American public. In Iraq, as in Vietnam, we have failed to cut off the enemy from re-supply. In Iraq, as in Vietnam, we have had ever-shifting military strategies. In Iraq, as in Vietnam, we have had trouble building effective, clean governmental institutions in the soil of an alien culture. Most importantly, in Iraq, as in Vietnam, we face the prospect of defeat.Damn liberal loser-defeatists.
Read The Rest Scale: 3 out of 5. It's always the MSM with this sort of thing, too, isn't it?
The difference, of course, is that Murtha is opting for cut-and-run, and Lowry is proposing "an all-out push to secure Baghdad". Assessing the situation accurately does not a loser-defeatist make, it's the conclusions drawn therefrom. But I'm guessing already knew that.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see you comment here, Charles; I appreciate it, and hope to see you comment here again.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm at a loss as to how John Murtha entered the conversation here, as I didn't mention him, wasn't thinking of him, and Lowry said nothing about him, as well. What's John Murtha got to do with this?
Oh, wait, it's because I referred to "loser-defeatist," I guess.
Making "an all-out push to secure Baghdad" sounds nice (if you're not someone shot or blown up during it), and, believe me, if I thought that it was likely to succeed, and then lead to the pacification of Iraq, the end, or at least tamping down to a low level, of the insurgency, and the same for the quasi-proto-civil war, I'd be all for that.
But I can't say that anyone looking at the situation and trends who is optimistic, by now, is anything other than a bit touched in the head, at best, at this point. That's the kind way of putting it.
I wish it were otherwise; I really do; but it isn't.
Hope is not a plan. Wishing and horses; etc.
I'm afraid we've lost this bet.
Does the Vietnam comparison mean we'll have a military base in Iraq in a few decades?
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