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An incontinent Congress
Nov 16, 2005
by Tony Blankley

Little good comes when Congress grabs control of American foreign policy and war-fighting strategies from the hands of a scandal-weakened White House. Of course it is always possible that there are 51 forward-leaning, shrewd, patriotic, non-partisan senators assembled to make the tough, unpopular call to push on for victory, no matter how hard and long the struggle. (Giggle.) But it is vastly more likely that less noble instincts beat in the breasts of the several senators assembled.

Monday, for the first time, the foul odor of the Vietnam War denouement wafted through the Senate Chamber during the debate on Iraq. The Democrats called for "estimated dates for the phased redeployment of United States Armed Forces from Iraq … " Phased redeployment was the maneuver the French executed in June 1940, in the days preceding the German occupation of Paris. Phased redeployment is what the Vietnamese boat people did as they swam for their lives away from their homeland.

[READ THE WHOLE THING. Hat tip: Lorie Byrd]

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... [S]etting a timetable tells the terrorists how long they have to hold out before they'll face a much less formidable military than ours. Iraq's military is gaining ground fast in capability, but it's just not yet as battle hardened or as well trained as the US Army and Marines. Second, a timetable sets up a defeat tripwire. If things go south and we have to legislatively undo the timetable, the terrorists will rightly see that as a defeat for us and the press will spin it that way. In post-modern wars like this one, the impression of defeat is almost as good as the real thing. Third, a timetable signals to the Iraqis that we will leave them high and dry, and it signals to the Iranians and other potential enemies that we can be chased out by a patient enemy, even from a war that we are winning. Somalia taught our enemies a similar lesson; Iraq was supposed to undo that lesson. A timetable would re-[e]nforce the Somalia lesson.

[Read the whole post here.]

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Try as I may, I can't begin to find the words to express the anger I feel at the prospect of America deserting the Iraqis the way we did the Vietnamese. I spent nine miserable months in Viet Nam -- It should have been 12 but Congress started dictating troop-level reductions that it wasn't time for -- only to watch this nation snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. 58,000 lives wasted, not to mention hundreds of thousands of veterans with emotional scars that will never heal, then we surrendered to Kerry and Fonda and their slimy ilk and abandoned the Vietnamese to their fate. I'll never forget what that felt like, and I know our troops who've served in Iraq deserve better than that. Maybe I'm just being selfish; I'd like to die proud of the country I served. Is that asking too much?

Posted by Bill Faith on November 16, 2005 at 05:10 PM | Permalink

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