Tag-Team Op-Eds
Raya Eckart sent me an interesting pair of links to op-ed stories today. First, we have Ralph Peters arguing that what we have in Iraq ain’t Vietnam:
Iraq another Vietnam? Hell, even Vietnam wasn’t the Vietnam of left-wing baby-talk politics and campus political astrology. Our Vietnamese enemies represented a mass movement. The Iraqi terrorists represent a small, bloodthirsty movement to oppress the masses.
Then this:
In 1965 Lyndon Johnson gave a speech at Johns Hopkins University titled “Why Are We in Vietnam?” Two years later, Norman Mailer offered a somewhat different version in his book “Why We Are in Vietnam.” Today, this column could be called “Why We Are Not in Vietnam.”
That graf is from. . . Richard Cohen, believe it or not.
Check’em both out.
Re Richard Cohen:
Viet Nam didn’t matter? Tell that to the millions who died and suffered in SVN and Cambodia when we abandoned them to the communists.
Stalin said that the loss of one human life was a tragedy, but the loss of a million lives a statistic. It is good to keep this in mind when trying to grasp the reason for the left’s baffling lack of compassion for the victims of tragedies that aren’t necessarily useful in furthering there “progressive” agenda.