Comments on: Iraq = Vietnam

By: CavMedic

CavMedic — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:39:42 +0000

Steyn says in an essay about the 1970s which quotes a John O’Sullivan book: “The Falklands wasn’t just about the Falklands, any more than Iraq is about Iraq. In Congress today they’re re-subscribing to the defeatist myths — the invincibility of the insurgent, then Marxist, now Islamist, but plus ça change. This invaluable book reminds us that while threats come and go, the pathologies of free societies remain distressingly constant. It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn’t.”

I am watching a documentary on Discovery Times about the 16 year old Iranian girl who was hung for “violations against chastity”. It has some disturbing images of hangings and stonings and yet this is the enemy that Webb would have us yield the battlefield to. Such a course would be almost unbelievably dishonorable and cowardly, but continuing the fight requires a resolve that seems almost completely absent in America outside of part of the right and a precious few on the left (Hitchens and Lieberman). I believe that I understand quite a bit about human behavior, but such fecklessness is still startling.

By: Bloodthirsty Liberal » Iraq-nam

Bloodthirsty Liberal » Iraq-nam — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:34:37 +0000

[...] But, via Jules Crittenden, another pin-up of the so-called moderate Democrats, James Webb, is revealed to be—oh, how to put this with the utmost respect—two-faced: It had taken years following South Vietnam’s 1975 demise before the cycle of war and its aftermath was complete and a full body of facts, particularly from the communist side, became available. The twentieth anniversary of that overthrow offered a moment ripe for a re-examination of American and South Vietnamese wartime successes in the face of continuing derision at home, and of the now-undeniably ruinous consequences to Vietnam of a communist victory. Instead, the world was treated to a deliberate side-show. [...]

By: RebeccaH

RebeccaH — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:14:03 +0000

“I’ll tell you why I have no problem doing business in Vietnam. I spent eighteen months there, and I never hated my enemy as much as I did the people who … on me when I came home.”

If the same thing happens in Iraq, we’ll see a replay of this kind of division, polarizing us even more. It’ll be interesting to see the oh-so-progressive anti-war groups’ take on the resulting tide of illegal immigrants from the Muslim world.

Webb forgot he wrote this essay because he has become one of the “protected elites” he wrote about.

By: Luther McLeod

Luther McLeod — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:08:46 +0000

Can’t say it any better saltydog, so I can only agree with you. Perhaps someone should point this essay out to Webb, maybe he has forgotten he wrote it.

By: saltydog

saltydog — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:19:32 +0000

From understanding the intellectual dishonesty of the anti-war bunch, to feet of clay in a decade. If he understood enough to write that article then, how does he justify his behavior now?

By: CavMedic

CavMedic — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:18:25 +0000

“With a timing no doubt governed by those in publishing and media circles who wished to capitalize on his odd mea culpa in order to promote old and discredited views from the antiwar left…”

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!-Hey no fair using the good Senator’s own words against him.

Seriously though, I wonder if the President was to just go ahead and give Webb’s son an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps if he wouldn’t then pull his head out of his fourth point of contact and start to see sense.

Jim Webb ought to understand the consequences of losing in Iraq better than most of the rest of the congress critters, but he sold his soul to KO$ and company and now he has to pay the piper.