Phillip Jennings has the top story at Human Events today.
As you prepare for your imminent deployment to Afghanistan, I guess it’s inevitable that I’m thinking of that time forty five years ago that I prepared for my deployment to Vietnam as a young lieutenant of Marines. We’ve talked about the similarities in our respective wars, but there’s a lot more I could say. The concurrent publication of my Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War has sharpened our discussions and my ability to comment on your questions.
First, it is critically important for Americans to understand the true history of our involvement. Most important is the fact that the U.S. military fought brilliantly and defeated the Communist aggressors in Vietnam. Yes, that’s right. We won the war. And then we saw the Congress of the United States throw away that victory by abrogating our obligations to continue support of the South Vietnamese.
Why is that so important? Simply because that fact illuminates the only way we can similarly lose in Afghanistan. You will not be defeated on the battlefield. Of that, there is no question.
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The communist knew that the key to victory
throwback59 Tuesday, March 16th at 10:01AM EST (link)wasn’t in the jungles of Vietnam but rather on the streets of America. The taliban & al qaida learned the same lesson. They can’t win in the caves and hills but have a chance in the halls of Congress.
What are wars for if not to lose.
johnt Tuesday, March 16th at 10:29AM EST (link)And then there were the 300-400 thousand Vietnamese who lost their lives fleeing their country. Ah, the wages of liberalism, whose heirs today fixate and defecate over three, 3, terrorists who were waterboarded, and never mind at all, don’t even think about the American lives saved.
“Savages” I think is too kind a word for this disease of the human race.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Stated goals
jsanzone (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 1:18AM EST (link)This is why more clear stated goals should have been articulated from the beginning. Pres. Bush could have made a multi-step process more clear.
Instead, everyone simply went along with whatever may come because, well, compared to Iraq it’s the “right” war. If the goal was to topple the Taliban and ‘rebuild’ the nation, they should have made that abundantly clear. It appears though, that the goal was to topple the Taliban, and simply resign to a permanent state of war and conflict.
So, yes, the similarities to Vietnam are many.
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