The Time Loop

The Guardian of England is stuck in the Vietnam time warp. The Iraqi elections were a success, and it just galls the left. Not to worry, though. History is leaving them behind.

Actually, comparing this situation to Vietnam should serve as a lesson on the inhumanity of leaving Iraq until it has the means to defend itself. We left Vietnam and when the North Vietnamese violated the ceasefire; Congress declined to allow us to return; and South Vietnam ceased to exist as a democratic state. For all of the carping by the left about corruption, South Vietnamese were better off with freedom than they were under Communism. We turned our backs on the murders of hundreds of thousands of those who trusted us. Vietnam was a quagmire, not because it couldn't be won, but because of the way the Johnson administrative conducted it. We allowed the enemy sanctuaries across all borders, and we failed to take the war to their homes.