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Sleeping with the Enemy: Jim Webb: Then and Now
Read this and askyourself: How the hell does Jim Webb get from what he wrote here (which I 100% agree with) to his position today? As you read this, substitute 'Iraq' (and I might have left some in here) for 'Vietnam'. It is almost spooky. Is his BDS that bad? What made the change in him?

I have performed some bold edits.

It is difficult to explain to my children that in my teens and early twenties the most frequently heard voices of my peers were trying to destroy the foundations of American society, so that it might be rebuilt according to their own narcissistic notions. In retrospect it’s hard even for some of us who went through those times to understand how highly educated people—most of them spawned from the comforts of the upper-middle class—could have seriously advanced the destructive ideas that were in the air during the late ’60s and early ’70s. Even Congress was influenced by the virus.

After President Nixon resigned in August of 1974, that fall’s congressional elections brought 76 new Democrats to the House, and eight to the Senate. A preponderance of these freshmen had run on McGovernesque platforms. Many had been viewed as weak candidates before Nixon’s resignation, and some were glaringly unqualified, such as then-26-year-old Tom Downey of New York, who had never really held a job in his life and was still living at home with his mother.

This so-called spit! Watergate Congress rode into town with an overriding mission that had become the rallying point of the American Left: to end all American assistance in any form to the besieged government of South Vietnam. Make no mistake—this was not the cry of a few years earlier to stop young Americans from dying. It had been two years since the last American soldiers left South Vietnam, and fully four years since the last serious American casualty calls there.

Posted by: Brett 2007-02-21
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