VIETNAM REVISITED, AND IRAQ

Here is the simple truth: liberals are one part coward and one part stupid, and so they lost the Vietnam War. The coward in them says, "we are happy to live off of the frozen toes that George Washington chopped off that horrid winter at Valley Forge, but don't expect us to fight like that for our children and neighbors." The stupid part says, "the Republicans are more the enemy than Ho Chi Min and Sadam Hussein; if you count our words you'll see we loath Republicans most of all."

LBJ, a liberal, got us into Vietnam, heavily, in the days when it was considered important by all to resist the communist tide. He mismanaged the war very badly (mostly by giving up our technical superiority, and instead fighting a guerrilla war to minimize enemy casualties). He was then driven out of office by other liberals who were cowardly (afraid to fight for freedom) and stupid (saw nothing too terrible about the communist Ho Chi Min.) Nixon (Republican) took over with only a mandate for peace with honor. He did remarkably well given that liberals had tied his hands. He made heavy use of American military superiority (mostly B-52s) while withdrawing American troops. The Communists then agreed to release our POWs, stay out of South Vietnam, and make peace.

Here is what Kissinger said about the 1973 peace he negotiated: "We were determined to do our utmost to enable Saigon to grow in security and prosperity so that it could prevail in any political struggle. We sought not an interval before collapse, but a lasting peace with honor. But for the collapse of executive authority as a result of Watergate, I believe we would have succeeded."

Here is an account of what President Thieu said after American liberals allowed the communists to defeat freedom in his country in 1975: A bitter, tearful President Thieu resigns during a 90 minute rambling TV speech to the people of South Vietnam. Thieu reads from the letter sent by Nixon in 1972 pledging "severe retaliatory action" if South Vietnam was threatened. Thieu condemns the Paris Peace Accords, Henry Kissinger and the U.S. "The United States has not respected its promises. It is inhumane. It is untrustworthy. It is irresponsible." He is then ushered into exile in Taiwan, aided by the CIA.

American troops were out of Vietnam in 1973 , but still American liberals prevented further B-52 strikes like those that had originally brought the communists to the peace table. They even opposed the resupply of the South VietnameseArmy (ARVN). As the communists then took over South Vietnam and Cambodia about 2 million people were put to death, and the remaining 60 million were sentenced to lives in communist slavery and dire poverty. But hey, it was all in a days work for American Liberals. Jane Fonda and Teddy Kennedy never said a word. Their battle was against Republicans, not genocidal communists, and to this day their battle continues.

Fortunately the cold war against communism ended well anyway as Republicans (most notably Milton Friedman, I think) prevailed on the intellectual front against the liberals by establishing that capitalism, rough edges and all, is infinitely superior to liberal communism. Ronald Reagan, of course, administerd the final blow with a huge military build up, that the pathetic Soviet economy could not match, and some old fashioned Republican moral clarity about the deadly stupidity of liberal communism.

Sadly, Iraq at this point looks like another Vietnam. We have given up our military strength and have again, like Vietnam, chosen to fight a guerilla war, where we have almost no advantage, in order to limit enemy casualties. Liberals as always object on all grounds conceivable. A mad man who cuts peoples' tongues out of their mouth while they are conscious, supports terrorism, and invades his neighbors, is not their enemy, but a Republican is. They hate Bush now as much as they hated Nixon then.

If Bush is allowed to win the war and freedom reigns in Iraq he will go down in history as a heroic liberator and freedom warrior. If the liberals win the debate, but we lose the war again, they will write the history of this period by saying we enjoyed peace at home while gaining on the Republicans who were made to look like they lost two disgraceful and ill-conceived wars, one was against communists and one against a mad man, both of whom murdered and tortured millions, but neither of whom were really all that bad as neighbors. Indeed one does not ask a liberal for whom the bell tolls. For a cowardly and stupid liberal it tolls only for Republicans.