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Afghanistan
McNamara's Ghosts in Afghanistan - Cornels of truth from the Looney Left?
2009-07-08
Good lord above, it's Tom Hayden. Next time please tell us in advance. I was wondering who wrote this nonsense and I actually had to go to Huffpo [shudder] to find out. Hayden. Criminy. He's still around?
Robert McNamara died the other day as seven American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.

It wasn't the deaths on the same day that made me remember McNamara's folly.

It was the sense that McNamara's ghost is hovering over the new graveyard of America's future.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#9  Tom Hayden. Ah, the folly of believing your own BS.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-07-08 18:32  

#8  Yup, I put a warning at the top.
Posted by: Steve White   2009-07-08 17:39  

#7  Would've appreciated if you let us know this was one of Tom Hayden's screeds. Would've saved me five minutes of my life.
Posted by: tu3031   2009-07-08 16:32  

#6  A liberal kernel of korn
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-07-08 16:26  

#5  What's a cornel?
Posted by: Parabellum   2009-07-08 16:23  

#4  What do you expect from Tom Hayden? For the 60s radicals, it's always Viet Nam.

You're right - it's Hanoi Jane's ex.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2009-07-08 16:20  

#3  What do you expect from Tom Hayden? For the 60s radicals, it's always Viet Nam.
Posted by: Spot   2009-07-08 15:36  

#2  The Vietnam War was won at the time of the Paris Peace Accords. All it would have taken to hold the line was to continue sending supplies to South Vietnam, even as the Soviets were shipping billions in Migs, tanks and artillery to North Vietnam. Instead, Democrats in Congress chose to cut South Vietnam off, making the sacrifice of 58,000 American lives essentially meaningless. This is a lot like what happened with the Chinese Civil War in the late 40's - the Communists won because Uncle Sam stopped supplying the Nationalists even as the Soviets sent the huge amounts of American equipment we had shipped to them (during WWII) over to Mao Zedong's army.

During that interval, apologists for the Communists said that they were living off the land, when in fact they couldn't have survived without Soviet aid. The Chinese spent the next three decades repaying the Soviets for all the equipment they had bought on credit. And we lost 100,000 GI's because the Chinese Communists proceeded to stick it to us during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2009-07-08 14:40  

#1  "Vietcong civilians"? That's up there with "al Qaeda civilians" and "Taliban civilians".
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2009-07-08 14:25  

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