David Broder: Leave Iraq…
David Broder makes an interesting argument: Leave Iraq just like we left Saigon in 1975 and things will work out okay.
It is hard to remember now, but at the time, we were told that if Ho Chi Minh prevailed, communism would roll south through Malaysia and spread to the Philippines and threaten Australia—to say nothing of American influence in the Pacific. We took those warnings seriously, and so it was a bitter moment when the Viet Cong occupied the old American Embassy in Saigon.And today the embassy is again open—in Hanoi—and the United States is trading freely with a united Vietnam.
Right… We’ll ignore the tens of thousands who were killed in South Vietnam after the fall – or the 3 million killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the US fled southeast Asia.
Hey, it’s okay. Things worked out…
The humanitarian impulse of liberals like Broder is scary.
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ligneus:
Scary as in how the hell can grown people with a decent education [presumably] be so dumb.
5 August 2006, 7:00 pmSteve T.:
Especially someone old enough to remember the Fall of Saigon as it happened. He’s not some 16 year old who has to look it all up on Wikipedia.
8 August 2006, 4:30 pmChad:
My neighbor’s wife is the daughter of a South Vietnamese officer.
12 August 2006, 7:11 pmThey migrated to the US once he got out of prison after being tortured for years. ‘nuff said.
Administrator:
Paul
You’re afraid? You sound rather gleeful to me. It’s okay to admit you’re on the other side.
That may come in handy in Eurabia, where fascism of the nationalist variety has been replaced by that of the religious type. After all, Pym Fortune would have been hung from a forklift for being gay in Eurabia had he not been assassinated. And free speech? It got Theo Van Gogh a note pinned to his chest with a knife.
You might want to document your dhimmitude shown in these comments for the Muttawa - the religious police.
15 August 2006, 7:51 pm