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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Apr 10th, 2007, 03:22 PM
I say we look, as suggested, back to the Nixon Administration, but at the politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle. The legislative and journalistic methods used to defund America's involvement in Vietnam formed the playbook for the political circus act we are witnessing in DC today regarding the war in Iraq and the larger WOT. It really is instructive to recall Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge horror, but in an effort to put a face on what nearly everyone with an opinion on the subject says would result were we to pull our troops out of Iraq. Disaster. That means a lot of people die and the whole region collapses into turmoil.
Militarily, we lost Vietnam because we couldn't stabilize a real government in the South. That's proving to not be the case in Iraq, but that doesn't mean we can't lose this through other methods. Even if we had managed to establish the S Vietnam government, I doubt anything would have turned out different.
Personally, I believe Bush & Co knew this would eventually be the path chosen by the Democrats, which is WHY they have been stubborn, recalcitrant and secretive from the get go. Yes, this is probably a replay of our experience in Vietnam from many perspectives, but maybe the hawks learned something new from the mistakes of the past, where it's obvious the Dems are simply performing a re-enactment of their glorious collective hippie youth.
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mburbank~ Yes, okay, fine, I do know what you meant, but why is it not possible for you to get through a paragraph without making all the words cry?
How can someone who obviously thinks so much of their ideas have so little respect for expressing them? How can someone who so yearns to be taken seriously make so little effort?!
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