[2ndDivisionVet]

A trifle long but worth reading. Notice that the communist North Vietnamese organized antiwar demonstrations back then? Who is doing the same now, do you think?

[TeenagedConservative]

And Vietnam is now a valued Westernized trading partner.

The longer we continue to agitate civil war in Iraq, the messier it will be when we inevitable are forced to leave.

[fortheDeclaration]

So wrote Patrick J. Buchanan six months before Operation Iraqi Freedom

Spokesman for defeatist.

No one drove America from any battlefield.

Political decisions were made, not military ones.

[ScaniaBoy]

"They [the Muslims] drove the Brits out of Palestine......"

Say what?????

Muhammed el-Begin and Reza al-Shamir among others one presumes.....

[opticoax]

Similarly, Gen. Giap, who once said the U.S. could not be defeated militarily, conceded the 1968 Tet Offensive was an unmitigated disaster for Hanoi. And he was astonished to see Walter Cronkite, America's most trusted newsman, had declared Tet a decisive defeat for the U.S. Most of the Saigon-based press corps followed "Uncle Walter's" lead.

The most informative part of the article. What Cronkite owes to the US soldiers and the Vietnamese victims of Communism is an exceptionally long stay in Purgatory.

The only thing worse than a useful idiot is an old useful idiot.

Whenever I hear that arrogant doddering Pr**k giving his asinine opinions on TV, I want to vomit.

[Desron13]

"...this reporter met two French communists who bragged about organizing antiwar demonstrations in the United States.

Enough said.

[colorado tanker]

Iran is the real victor in Iraq, and the world must now learn to live with a nuclear Iran, says Mr. van Creveld, the way we learned to live with a nuclear Soviet Union and a nuclear China. But what about Israel -- and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to wipe it out? "We Israelis have what it takes to deter an Iranian attack," he answers in the June 2007 issue of Playboy magazine. "We are in no danger at all of having an Iranian nuclear weapon dropped on us. We cannot say so too openly, however, because we have a history of using any threat in order to get weapons ... thanks to the Iranian threat, we are getting weapons from the U.S. and Germany." "Our armed forces are not the 30th-strongest in the world, but rather the second or third," according to the Dutch-born Mr. van Creveld, a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 1971. "We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets that can launch them at targets in all directions. Most European capitals are targets of our air force. ... We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under."

Well, I'm skeptical, given the failure in Lebanon last year, but assume all this is true. How does this deter madmen? If Ahmadnutjob is willing to launch on Israel regardless of whether Israel can destroy Iran and its allies, what does it matter that an incinerated Israel killed its opponents?

Can we afford a nuclear Iran? I say no.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Drudge:

GOP candidates blast Clinton, Obama on Iraq vote

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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on Friday the “no” votes of Democratic presidential frontrunners Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) on the Iraq war funding bill equal surrendering to al Qaeda.

[BIGLOOK]

Bumping.......for all the toil and tears. Taking a look in the AM.