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| Review of "Every Man a Tiger" by Chuck Horner/Tom Clancy |
| 2007-05-02 |
| From GrouchyOldCripple: I just finished reading a book called Every Man A Tiger. It was written by Tom Clancy and retired General Chuck Horner. It was about the air war during the first Gulf War. Horner was the guy who ran the air war. The first part of the book gives some background on Horner. He was a fighter pilot in the Viet Nam War. Like most of the fighter pilots he was pissed about how the war was run. Y'see, we were trying to be the good guys and practice gradual escalation to try to convince North Viet Nam to butt out. As such, the pilots weren't allowed to take out the North Vietnamese airbases. They also weren't allowed to take out the first SAM sites. Needless to say, this pissed our guys off since this kept us from having air superiority and caused more planes to be shot down than should have been. Horner vowed this would never happen if and when he ran an air war. It didn't. If you remember in the first Gulf War, we took out the airbases, SAM sites, and shot down all the Iraqi fighters that tried to fight us. Many of them escaped to Iran, who still has those planes. We owned the sky over Iraq. During Viet Nam, Horner also stated that if a fighter pilot happened to have a target near an airbase, they occasionally "missed" their target and "accidentally" bombed a runway or two. Near the end of the war, when we were pulling out, Horner had a conversation with a South Vietnamese fighter pilot. We had promised South Viet Nam two squadrons of F4's. He asked Horner, "We're not getting those F4's are we?" The Dimocrats had cut funding. This was an act of betrayal by the United States. Horner remembered this. He also remembered the humanitarian disaster that resulted by our betrayal of South Viet Nam. The North violated the peace treaty. Shortly thereafter, Saigon fell. Then we had the boat people. The reeducation camps. Millions of people disappeared. The Killing Fields in Cambodia. Much of that resulted from the betrayal of the United States. Fast forward to Gulf War I. After we had thrown Saddam out of Kuwait, we encouraged the Shi'ites in the south to revolt. Unfortunately, we didn't offer them any support and Saddam crushed them. Another betrayal by the United States. I blame Bush pere for this. See, I can lambast Republicans. Unfortunately, he wasn't much of a Republican. "Read my lips! No new taxes." He then cut a deal with Congress for tax increases if they would cut spending. Just as during the Reagan adminisration, when the Dims said they were gonna cut spending, they always reneged on the deal. But I digress. Horner remembered Viet Nam and the American betrayal. Here is what he wrote on page 99, right after he explained how sometimes they bombed an airfield in North Viet Nam. What good did any of that do? I learned something. I learned that you could not trust America. And I tell my Arab friends that as I point out to them that the once-upon-a time capital of the last nation to put complete faith in American military might is now called Ho Chi Minh City. And now we see it again. We have freed Iraq. Their new gummint has put faith in us, but we are gonna cut and run. We'll see another act of betrayal and just like the Dimocrats did when we betrayed South Viet Nam, they'll rejoice when we betry Iraq. The humanitarian disaster that will strike when we leave will no more bother them than the humanitarian disaster that struck when we left South Viet Nam. This is why I hate Dimocrats. They are the party of betrayal |
| Posted by:Clinese Whavimp9371 |
| #1 Bravo |
| Posted by: Butch Therese5515 2007-05-02 20:30 |