Posted by
rider237 on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:44:55 PM
For those of us who have long argued that the current war bears no resemblance to Vietnam, we can stop now. What we have now is exactly what we had at the end of the Vietnam war.
Vietnam Disease, hereafter referred to as VD, has been around for many years. You'd expect to find it among the old radical protesters, but it is quite prevalent among the veterans of the Vietnam war.
Some of those veterans seems so bitter about the war they fought, that they are determined that no military action since will be successful if they can help it. They are adamant that every war and every action be label "another Vietnam" before it gets off the ground. When the label fails, those with VD in positions of power set about to make fiction a fact.
We now have "another Vietnam". We have those in Washington trying to make war policy. We have the VDers holding the purse strings and the "oversight" power. We have courts making war policy. Guess that's a new twist. One to add to the next war. Even the same words are heard "there is no military solution", etc....
Those with VD share something in common with their counterparts all the way back before ww2. They are eurosnobs. They really don't believe in their heart of hearts that "those brown people" can do us any real harm. They believe that we can talk to the brown people and convince them of how wonderful we are. They believe that if we can just show them how much we care and how peaceful we are, they won't want to attack us. Surely we can make them understand that Bush is an aberration as a leader and the rest of us are sooooo nice? They ignore history, but worse, they ignore the words of the enemy.
Well....Hey Hey, What do you say? Looks like Vietnam Disease is here to stay!