Those Who Do Not Learn From The Mistakes of History...?
The Left has been trying for some time now to morph the War on Terror into another Vietnam.
Here's what Victor David Hanson of National Review says:
"Vietnam, My Lai, pullout, deadline, cutoff -- all the old remembrances are returning, as the graying antiwar generation of the 1960s will not go quietly into the night. Abu Ghraib and Haditha are the new Tiger Cages and napalm; George Bush is the Johnson or Nixon of our age; and 'no blood for oil' is similar to the old mythical conspiracies of why we were in Vietnam."
And the report gives the Left just what it wants -- surrender; albeit with high-minded words and a pretty package.
"Vietnam, My Lai, pullout, deadline, cutoff -- all the old remembrances are returning, as the graying antiwar generation of the 1960s will not go quietly into the night. Abu Ghraib and Haditha are the new Tiger Cages and napalm; George Bush is the Johnson or Nixon of our age; and 'no blood for oil' is similar to the old mythical conspiracies of why we were in Vietnam."
And the report gives the Left just what it wants -- surrender; albeit with high-minded words and a pretty package.
And what will happen if we follow the report's recommendations and leave before the job is done... before the Iraqis are able to handle this situation themselves... before we have reasonable assurances that Americans will be safe from future terrorist attacks?
Hanson has a few words on that as well:
Hanson has a few words on that as well:
"Once we leave, the killing starts in earnest, not 20 or 30 per day, but wholesale slaughter of any Iraqis who taught school, or were clean shaven and wore Western dress, or fought to save Iraq. Millions of refugees flee to the West. Those who stay are killed or 'reeducated.' Islamism, like Communism, is empowered with the American defeat... Americans abroad will be ripe targets, since, like the Iranian hostage taking of 1979, there will be an unspoken assurance that the United States would not dare risk another Iraq/Vietnam."
Remember what happened when we let politicians run the war in Vietnam from thousands of miles away and pulled out before the South Vietnamese were ready to defend themselves?
Mass murderer Ho Chi Minh executed and imprisoned numberless Vietnamese. Millions died. Hundreds of thousands fled the country, including the desperate boat people, many of whom drowned or died of exposure.
Mass murderer Ho Chi Minh executed and imprisoned numberless Vietnamese. Millions died. Hundreds of thousands fled the country, including the desperate boat people, many of whom drowned or died of exposure.
With American troops gone, the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot, a communist terrorist, took control of Cambodia; and during his reign of terror, 2 million Cambodians died of starvation, torture or execution -- approximately 30% of the Cambodian population.
It can happen again! If we accept the recommendations of this report and cut and run, radical Islam will win and it WILL happen again!
But it could be much worse this time!
It can happen again! If we accept the recommendations of this report and cut and run, radical Islam will win and it WILL happen again!
But it could be much worse this time!
Osama bin Laden, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syria's leader Bashar Assad, the suicide bombers who kill in the name of Allah -- will see our withdrawal as the final defeat of America ("the Great Satan").
America will be humiliated by a bunch of third-world thugs -- drunk on ideology -- who will win because they believed while Americans doubted.
And we will see brutality that will shock the world as America's enemies realize they can strike at us at home and abroad with impunity because our political leaders lack the will to do what must be done!
That's why patriotic Americans MUST take action NOW!
