Monday, May 30, 2005

Iraq = Vietnam

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Another disjointed comparison of Iraq and Vietnam from the liberal university elite:

American defeats are hauntingly similar. Informed by cultural and political ignorance, we invade and occupy while denying intelligence that warns against folly. Hubris tells us our power is unassailable. Politicians market paranoia to silence reasoned deliberation, and those who profit from war or reconstruction buy into the conflict as long as it adds to the bottom line.

American defeats are self-inflicted. We fight the wrong wars against illusory foes, thinking the enemy is one when it is another. We sense ubiquitous peril from all who differ from "us."

The deliberation of action in Iraq went on for months, months that the so called Iraqi insurgency used to stash weapons throughout the country. Months that allowed radical Islamists to flood the country (those that weren't already there) and prepare for the reconstruction phase they knew would come. These heathens don't want reconstruction, they want Shiites dead.

Our defeats are self inflicted because of people such as the author of this piece who preach the same tired rhetoric about wars for money and "illusory foes". We didn't choose this war, it was thrust on us by a nationless enemy who wants the world to not be secular but part of the next caliphate. Mr. Nelson, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, is seeing the world through 30-year old Vietnam-colored bifocals.

We had a momentarily decisive battlefield victory in Iraq. But triumph was illusory and ephemeral. Too soon, 2,000 Americans will have died, 12,000 seriously wounded, and additional thousands with psychological or other illness will have required evacuation. Iraqi deaths are now 50 to 100 per day. The number of coalition members and their troops are ebbing. The frequency and severity of insurgent attacks against U.S., Iraqi or allied assets continue to rise - encouraged, not abated, by an election and formation of a government. Even the Bush administration's National Intelligence Council reported in early 2005 that global terrorism has been strengthened, recruiting new generations of jihadists to kill and die for charismatic leaders.

The simple fact is that these young men and women were not drafted, they are all volunteers who knew the risks associated with the military life. I knew it when I joined.

Is Mr. Nelson so naive as to think that less than four years into the War on Terror that it would be all tidy and neat? Of course jihadists are murdering civilians. This is the same MO they've employed for years under the guise of rebellion or revolution. Or as the liberal left refers to them; Freedom Fighters. The jihadi's didn't need us to mobilize them, Osama bin-Laden already had them agitated to the point that 19 of them hijacked four planes and murdered 3,000 American citizens. I'd bet one or two of them attended the University of New Haven.

When Americans withdrew from Vietnam, they did not do so because democracy had been preserved or a timetable was set, but because of the unmitigated defeat of the puppet regime they had created and maintained. Washington decision-makers should contemplate such a scenario in Iraq, before we need helicopter evacuation of Americans from rooftops of the Green Zone.

Is Mr. Nelson implying that the democratically elected government in Iraq is a "puppet regime"? Dean Nelson can't separate the Vietnam war with the current situation it seems. Liberals want so badly to see this war end up as Vietnam did that they have inextricably linked the two in their own minds. In other words, leftist gospel is now that Vietnam = Iraq. They cling to this gospel as the evil Evangelical Christians hold to their beliefs. The problem is that the Vietnam = Iraq gospel is far more damaging to our country than any Christian held belief.

America's weakening global position should spur thoughts of withdrawal. The United States today has fewer friends than at any time since the end of World War II, and its strengths are hemorrhaging. The "insecuring" of America involves the rapid and simultaneous ebbing of national capacities: Cultural tolerance is trampled by religious zealotry, political freedom constrained by irrational fear, and financial institutions weakened under massive deficits.

There it is! What took Mr. Nelson so long to inject "religious zealotry' into the debate. In the leftist playbook, that should be included in the first paragraph. I guess he didn't get the e-mail.

What political freedom has been constrained, Mr. Nelson? The financial institutions you caution us about are sounder now than in years. As a matter of fact, the steady crumbling of the EU has only strengthened the dollar as the preeminent currency around the globe.

Those who fall in Iraq soon will have their own monument in Washington. But on future Memorial Days, little solace will come to a nation made far weaker and less secure in these eight years. Survivors will question, as they did in the last generation, the purpose of sacrifice.

"These last eight years"? Is Dean Nelson inferring that this war began under Bill Clinton. I believe it started far longer than eight years ago, but our belated response made the job much more difficult. If this war had started in 1997 or earlier, we may not even be having this national conversation. We'd been under attack in Africa, Yemen and NYC and failed to respond, perhaps if we had shown any leadership then, the situation would be much improved today.

By the way, note that the Inquirer dug up this piece that originally appeared in the far-left site Common Dreams and chose to run it on Memorial Day, a day that us veterans hold sacred.

2 comments:

Dave Justus said...

Well said!

Anonymous said...

GENOCIDE APPROVED by DEMOCRACY.
The INNOCENTS and their FAMILIES are the losers in WAR in IRAQ.

Up until today; 1,571+ innocent American soldiers have been killed in IRAQ.
Soldiers who were wounded, lost body parts, or were paralyzed, and have become chronically ill with physical or mental illnesses. Also, soldiers that have been evacuated due to non combatant wounds or other injuries and diseases are over 17,000.
Other innocent soldiers from coalition troops dead number 176.

All the dead and those wounded are Innocent, because they were defending (and still are) the erroneous Vision of FREEDOM of a utopian political demagogue; whom had received power from the people to lead them and enlighten a dark World with Mercy and Love (if he in deed was a follower of CHRIST as he had said). However, he deceived the people with his own vision of “WAR on TERROR” for PEACE; Instead of using that power for good he used it to steal, kill and destroy because he is also a liar

As it is written and the MESSIAH says:
“VERILY, verily, I say unto to you, He that enters not by the door (employing His “Gospel of PEACE”) into the sheepfold (to lead the Faithful), but climbs up some other way, (“Advance of Freedom and PEACE through WAR”) the same is a thief and a robber. “Yes, he has stolen the FAITH and the WEALTH of the PEOPLE with lies; and has used THEM to kill and destroy;”

Innocent Iraqi civilians killed by US. BOMBING are estimated to be between 21,000 and 25,000 in two years; most of them elders, women and children. IRAQ is in chaos and all people including American soldiers and their families of the nation are suffering. Is this not a WAR CRIME against the people of IRAQ and all humanity? Can we humanly say that this insane killing and human suffering should be called Liberation?

WE THE PEOPLE (TAXES) ARE BEING ASK TO DONATE MORE MONEY TO SUPPORT OUR SOLDIERS IN IRAQ. SAY TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN: “WE WANT OUR FAMILY HOME! STOP THE KILLING AND BRING THEM HOME.”

The Word of GOD written says:
“Woe to him (unrighteous king) that increases that which is not his! (Afghanistan and Iraq) How long? And to him that covers himself with thick clay!
“Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil you; Because of men’s blood and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.”
“Woe to him (of unrighteous actions) that covets an evil covetousness to his house; that he may set his nest on high; that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
“You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off (crippling) many people, and have sin against your soul!”
“Woe to him (the anti-CHRIST) that builds a town (Iraq) with blood (instead of Mercy and Love), and establishes a city with iniquity!” That is the vision that was embraced by the prophet Habakkuk for an appointed time in chapter two; and Ivor Manuel prophet says: “The time is now America, open your eyes and awake to RIGHTEOUSNESS!”
Moreover:
“Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the LORD.” Obadiah 4
“Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.” Isaiah 14:15
“Open your eyes wide; read and understand for the “Judgment of GOD” is coming down upon sleeping AMERICA!”

PAT ROBERTSON from the 700 CLUB said something like this: “GOD told me that He is going to remove some Judges from their benches.”
But what I hear My GOD and Our MESSIAH say is this:

“Political leaders of AMERICA, REPENT! You have misled the Nation.”
“Shepherds of AMERICA, REPENT! You have misled My PEOPLE.
“Military Leaders of AMERICA, REPENT! You have misled the World.”
“Because you don’t believe in ME, UNRIGHTEOUS is your JUDGEMENT.”
Thus Says the LORD JESUS ALEUZENEV;
LORD and SERVANT of all PEOPLE, My New Name.

“AWAKE to RIGHTEOUSNESS, and SIN NOT: For some HAVE NOT the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD: I speak this to YOUR SHAME.” I Corinthians 15: 34.
“For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little and there a little.” “For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.” Isaiah 28

“BENDITOS LOS QUE CREEN EN EL NOMBRE DEL SENOR.”
I am here to publish and declare the TRUE FREEDOM for PEACE; which is MERCY and LOVE and the DOCTRINE of OUR LORD; and the NEW NAME of the LORD, which is JESUS ALEUZENEV, LORD and SERVANT of all PEOPLE. Revelation 3:12. Thus says Ivor Manuel, prophet branch of the LORD; praying for you and PEACE for the World
“And My LORD MESSAIAH said unto me, Thou must PROPHESY AGAIN before many PEOPLES, and NATIONS and TONGUES, and KINGS.” Revelation 10: 11.
Ivor Manuel, prophet branch of the LORD; prays for you and PEACE for the WORLD. OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA!
www.aleuzenev.com