Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Iraq is Now Officially Vietnam All Over Again
Except the deaths are far fewer.
But the Wall Street Journal (sub. reqd.) has broken out the old Vietnam chestnut: admitting our clear and obvious mistake that is apparent to the world is a sign of weakness so we have o stay the distance so as not to appear weak, just really f^@king stupid. Stupid is okay.
And what's also silly is that we've already won: we got contol of the oil fields (but not the pipelines out :)) and have established permanent bases. There's nothing important left to do... from our perspective, although maybe the Iraqis have a problem with the anarchy we brought them after over a decade of sanctions....
But the Wall Street Journal (sub. reqd.) has broken out the old Vietnam chestnut: admitting our clear and obvious mistake that is apparent to the world is a sign of weakness so we have o stay the distance so as not to appear weak, just really f^@king stupid. Stupid is okay.
And what's also silly is that we've already won: we got contol of the oil fields (but not the pipelines out :)) and have established permanent bases. There's nothing important left to do... from our perspective, although maybe the Iraqis have a problem with the anarchy we brought them after over a decade of sanctions....
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