Right Lesson Wrong Teacher
Excerpt of column by Paul Hollrah
One of the best pieces of writing in recent times on the subject of Iraq is an essay by blogger Rick Moran, titled, “The Right Lessons to Learn From Viet Nam,” published in the July 15 edition of American Thinker.
“Some opponents of the Iraq war are toying with the idea of American defeat. A number of them are simply predicting it, while others advocate measures that would make it more likely.”
When the radical left forced a humiliating and inconclusive end to the Vietnam War the people of Indochina paid a heavy price. Millions were either slaughtered or left to rot in “reeducation” camps, and the blood of our squandered manhood, our 58,000 dead, was cheapened. If we now follow their advice and withdraw prematurely from Iraq, the price in blood will be even greater, the loss of American prestige will be incalculable and irretrievable, and the cause of freedom will be damaged forever.
To serve successfully as President of the United States, especially at a time of great crisis such as the life or death struggle to save western civilization from the murderous hordes of radical Islam, requires something more than just the ability to stand at a podium and read a prepared speech from a teleprompter. If that were all that is required we could have hired a robot to lead us.
Bush and his advisers, accustomed to playing only defense, appear unable to foresee or to counter opposition tactics beyond today’s headlines. For example, is there anyone outside the White House inner circle who doesn’t understand that, when al-Qaeda strikes the United States again, perhaps with even more devastating consequences than on 9/11, Democrats are already prepared to say that the attack was merely pay-back for Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
One of the best pieces of writing in recent times on the subject of Iraq is an essay by blogger Rick Moran, titled, “The Right Lessons to Learn From Viet Nam,” published in the July 15 edition of American Thinker.
“Some opponents of the Iraq war are toying with the idea of American defeat. A number of them are simply predicting it, while others advocate measures that would make it more likely.”
When the radical left forced a humiliating and inconclusive end to the Vietnam War the people of Indochina paid a heavy price. Millions were either slaughtered or left to rot in “reeducation” camps, and the blood of our squandered manhood, our 58,000 dead, was cheapened. If we now follow their advice and withdraw prematurely from Iraq, the price in blood will be even greater, the loss of American prestige will be incalculable and irretrievable, and the cause of freedom will be damaged forever.
To serve successfully as President of the United States, especially at a time of great crisis such as the life or death struggle to save western civilization from the murderous hordes of radical Islam, requires something more than just the ability to stand at a podium and read a prepared speech from a teleprompter. If that were all that is required we could have hired a robot to lead us.
Bush and his advisers, accustomed to playing only defense, appear unable to foresee or to counter opposition tactics beyond today’s headlines. For example, is there anyone outside the White House inner circle who doesn’t understand that, when al-Qaeda strikes the United States again, perhaps with even more devastating consequences than on 9/11, Democrats are already prepared to say that the attack was merely pay-back for Bush’s invasion of Iraq?
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