History Lesson
Guzzo style.
The rise of anti-war protests and the barrage of anti-Bush sentiments that have arisen in the news media and among Liberal faculty members at the nation’s colleges and universities compel me to repeat one of my favorite lines from the works of the great philosopher, George Santayana:
Damn faculty members! Don’t they know that they are supposed to love President Bush unconditionally?
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
True dat. How could those professors and the liberal media forget the way Viet Nam invaded us after we lost that war?
About 30 years ago, the same types of rabblerousers came out of the woodwork and caused us to lose the x1only war America has lost in its history. They prevailed upon congressional leaders, the press, educational institutions, and the public itself to withdraw support of our military campaign in Vietnam.
Now, let’s totally ignore the fact that Kennedy, and for much of his Presidency, Johnson had the resources to do pretty much whatever they wanted in Viet Nam; let’s assume that the war was winnable. I’m not sure it was, but assume it for the sake of argument. Even with that, it’s not exactly moral what we did over there. Killing millions of people, horrible chemical deforestation, the awful things that happened to the American soldiers both those who made it home and who never did. I’m not sure that would have been a good price to pay for a client state in a marginally important part of the world.
It was a war we could easily have won. Because of the withdrawal of support at home, our generals, admirals, and Air Force leaders were persuaded to pull back their ground, sea, and air units and to table the final assault they knew could have routed the Communists and put an end to the war in Vietnam. It was clearly a war we could have and should have won. Instead, we permitted the Communists to swallow up South Vietnam, and we begn our humiliating retreat.
Easily. We could have easily won it. We didn’t even try thanks to the hippies who hardly showed up at all for the first few years. I mean there were advisers before the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964. And it was a few years after that before there were any protests on any sort of scale. But it was totally the protesters. Oh and college professors. begn?
A nation in Southeast Asia that we could have and should have set free to pursue its dream of freedom and a democratic republic was handed over to the North Vietnamese Communists. Doesn’t all that have an eerie, perilous ring to those Americns who re now demanding that we pull our military out of Iraq and Afghnistan and, once, again, turn those nations over to our avowed enemy?
who re? Americns? Afghnistan? And like last time there is an elaborate theory that they will come here if we don’t go over there. I don’t understand it exactly: something about how they will come here and play dominoes. Also like last time, not much of a democracy. And who’s asking that we leave Afghnistan or Afghanistan for that matter?
Are we about to make the same colossal mistake and retreat, just as total victory is within our grasp? Must we continue to prove Santayana right and prove once more that we are condemned to repeat the past because we cannot remember it? Now, more than ever before, patriotic Americans must stand their ground and support President Bush and our important ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wouldn’t the initial invasion be more of a time to remember that thing about history? Also, Bush is drawing down our presence in Afghanistan to make way for the infinite continuation of “the surge” and maybe the invasion of Iran. So maybe what the fuck including them? Unless this post is a bout of Bush hatred.
If we don’t, we can expect Muslim militants in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world to step up their campaign of “war against the infidels.” The Muslim extremists have been on the attack against the U.S., Israel, and the West for more than three decades, and they show no signs of relenting or seeking an armistice. Those who have their heads in the sand must realize that the Third World War has been going on since the 1970s and will continue until we defeat the extremists wherever we find them.
And the best way to do that is to topple a secular government and then incubate terrorism for ever. Oh, and are we still on history? Because again, Viet Nam and Communism didn’t exactly head to our shores as a result of losing that war.
We have been told time and again that the majority of Muslims around the world are peace-loving people and do not share the extremists’ hatred for non-Muslims. If that is the case, we in the world’s free democracies must prevail upon the peace-loving Muslims to take action to subdue the militants and make peace with the rest of the world. If the two major factions of Islam are divided over the interpretation of the Koran, the peace-loving Muslims must take the upper hand and elevate that interpretation of Muhammad’s words that preached peace, not “a war against the infidels.”
And the best way to do that is to kill as many of their family, friends, and neighbors as possible. Oh and to still not have a plan for port security or securing our food supply.
Lost in the maze of today’s combat is the important fact that the U.S. and its allies have delivered to Afghanistan and Iraq the greatest gift a major Power can bestow upon a downtrodden, dictator-weary nation: Freedom, liberty, and the right to live within a democratic republic run by the people.
And it’s been a smashing success so far. Afghanistan is back to rule by warlords and a semi-democratic Kabul. And Iraqis love having purple fingers so much that they don’t mind dying for them. And the U.S. building that gigantic wall in and forcing all those people out of Baghdad sure made the people happy.
May 20th, 2007 at 9:20 am
the Lesson to be learned from all this is, that when ever Winning becomes more important than the objective itself, when winning is so important that we forget about why we went to war. we will always Loose. If in the process of fighting a War,you become as evil as your enemy, you will loose. because in the end the war has no objective. this can only bring us to the Eve of Distruction. this why we need to stop using war as a tool of power.