"We have Obama's latest threat yesterday to start pretending he's dictator again, to bypass Congress with executives orders. We have a thousand news items out there, a thousand stories, and the Drive-Bys are missing all of them. They're obsessing on the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge." ~ El Rushbo
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’Nam comes to Iraq: Losing to al Qaeda, after winning
Whether you agreed with the war or not, it's difficult to argue the fact that another Democratic administration has come along to lose another war only after practically winning it...this time to al Qaeda terrorists, though!
Related link: Violence kills 75 in Iraq, PM seeks world's supportNYPost: News that al Qaeda is flying its flag over Fallujah this week certainly takes me back — not to Iraq, but to Vietnam. I’ve been making this point for years now, but never as well as it was made in Megyn Kelly’s interview [last] Tuesday with Rep. Duncan Hunter of California.
“I know,” Kelly asked him, “that a lot of veterans who fought in Iraq to help secure these things are wondering tonight, ‘What did we fight for? What did we lose our comrades for, if now we leave and al Qaeda — al Qaeda — is flying its flag on top of these cities?’ ”
Hunter gave the exactly right answer: “We won in Iraq,” he said first. ... He reiterated the point, saying that by 2010, we’d won the war in Iraq. The question was whether we’d abandon what we’d won. “This president,” Hunter said, referring to Barack Obama, “left for purely political reasons.”
The catastrophe unfolding in Fallujah wouldn’t have happened, he suggested, had we left 10,000 or 20,000 troops there, like we have in every other war zone that we’ve been involved in — except Vietnam.
The fact is that we didn’t leave any troops. This is one of the key points about Vietnam: We won the war there, too, before we gave it away in Congress.
How many American combat troops were there when Congress voted to ended its backing for the free government of South Vietnam? Not 20,000, or 10,000, or even 5,000; the answer is zero. There were no American combat GIs in Vietnam when Congress betrayed our allies there and ended support. The vote wasn’t to bring our troops home. They were already home.
President Gerald Ford begged Congress not to betray Vietnam or the GIs who’d fought there. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger literally prowled the halls of Congress, pleading with the Democrats to stick with our ally.
But the anti-war movement, The New York Times and other liberal organs, and a future secretary of state named John Kerry — they all bayed for retreat. When the ammo was cut off, the only thing left for the doughty Vietnamese was to pull their army out of the Central Highlands and fall back to Saigon.
The Communists swept out of the jungles in divisions, pulling large missiles with trailer trucks and driving tanks into Saigon. This is how, in Indochina, a population the size of Eastern Europe’s was cast into the long, dark night of communism.
Kelly’s conversation with Duncan Hunter is a reminder that in the new generation some people understand all this. They understand the comparison, that the surge in Iraq gave us the chance to make sure that what happened in Vietnam doesn’t happen again in Iraq, or elsewhere in the Middle East.
Is Rouhani right? Iran now poised to become Alpha Dog of Middle East
The Obama administration, along with the UN capitulators, have so cow-towed to Iran, that the Middle East's terrorist-supporting nation is now emboldened enough to push forward with nuking up. What could go wrong?
Related links: Video – Obama on Iran: “Give Peace A Chance” … Seriously. He Said That Actual Thing.FoxNews: Iranian President Rouhani took to Twitter Tuesday with the sobering message that world powers have “surrendered to Iranian nation's will.”
Iran’s leader is referring to the brand new nuclear agreement that was announced in Geneva this week.
But hold on. Is this the same agreement that President Obama and Secretary Kerry say will freeze and then roll back Iran’s nuclear program? The one administration flacks are so excited about that they’re heralding it as a breakthrough equal to Nixon’s opening to China?
It’s time for a reality check.
The deal with the Persian nation makes it clear we are leaving the region, and leaving Iran in charge.
Iran is now poised to become the Alpha Dog of the Middle East – the dominant economic, military and political power in the region that controls the world’s exported oil.
Thanks to the agreement struck by President Obama’s hand-picked Secretary of State John Kerry, it is doing so with America’s blessing.
Just thought I'd provide a slight breather from Jersey's bloated traffic-gate to ponder on more impending screw-ups of the actual administration that's currently in power. Silly me.
