FLASHBACK: Back on December 15th,

FLASHBACK: Back on December 15th, 2002, I wrote:

Vietnam is doubly instructive here–it was the high-water mark of the anti-war movement, which gained traction because the US military was ineffective in Vietnam, partially due to using tactics developed 25 years earlier in World War II. (And yes, that’s a gross simplification, and Robert McNamera, Westmoreland, and Johnson’s rules of engagement didn’t help things. But you get the idea.)

But each component of the military radically changed its tactics after Vietnam. The anti-war movement is still stuck in a 30 year old timewarp.

And it’s got to feel strange for them, to find the military’s thinking more modern than theirs.

Not coincidentally, the same holds true of the press. On April 28th, Brit Hume spoke at Hillsdale College and said:

If you go back and look at American military operations beginning with the Grenada invasion and including Panama, the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and you study what U.S. military spokesmen said about how those conflicts were going at each stage, you