The Discerning Texan

All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke

Monday, July 30, 2007

Gooood Mooorning Iraq! (only let's hope for a different ending this time...)

The radio personality about whom the movie Good Morning Vietnam was based has a few words to say about Iraq, in an email to Debbie Schlussel (thanks to G.M. Roper for the link). Emphases are Debbie's:

From: Adrian Cronauer
Date: Jul 30, 2007 8:28 AM

Subject: Dengler Review

To: writedebbie@gmail.com

Good (as usual) review of the Dengler film but one, tiny, nit-picking point if I may: we didn't lose the war in Vietnam, we lost the peace, if we lost anything. Viewed from one perspective, we politically gave up what we had already won militarily. Actually, "we" didn't do so as a country but, rather, the Dems in Congress--to their everlasting shame--deliberately gave South Viet Nam to the Communists.

When we withdrew our military in 1973, the Viet Cong were still recovering from the defeat they suffered during the Tet Offensive while the South Vietnamese military was more than able to defend their country--but only if they continued to receive equipment, ammunition, other supplies, and miscellaneous logistical support from the U.S. which we promised to give them indefinitely. No sooner had our troops returned home ("victoriously" one could argue) when the liberals (I refuse to use the false designation of "progressive") in Congress started to pull the plug on South Vietnam. They blocked any funds to support the S. VN military and, hence, it was only a matter of time before the North Vietnamese Communist troops were able to overrun the South and either "re-educate" or massacre all those who were loyal to the South or had anything to do with the Americans.

Would it be too much of a stretch to see what the Dems are doing in Congress now regarding Iraq as a direct parallel?

Yes, I am THAT Adrian Cronauer and as the patch on my black leather vest says, "Vietnam--When I Left, We Were Winning."

Always enjoy your column. And please keep up the good work.

AC