Chrenkoff, Iraq and Vietnam

Chrenkoff also has an article today discussing the comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq. I think he hits the nail on the head.

When reading Woodruff's book I was struck by how much the Vietnam War resembles the current conflict in Iraq - not in the way that the left says it is - a military quagmire - but in the way the left wants to make it so. What we have in both cases is a highly successful military operation conducted under restrictive rules of engagement, resulting in serious defeat of enemy forces but portrayed by the media as an inconclusive stalemate at best, while at the same time the public support for the action is being white-anted by a small but influential section of the elite.

This is precisely the point of Vietnam. Wars are not just won on the ground. They have to be won politically as well. That's what the upcoming election is all about.

Either we as a people believe in George Bush's vision of a world where terrorism is defeated and democracy spreads throughout the globe, or we return to the vision of the past - John Kerry's vision of cooperation with a corrupt UN and sycophantic obeisance to the liberal ideals of the brotherhood of man, with a few unfortunate deaths for the common folk from the "nuisance" of terrorism.