Does Anyone Smell 'Vietnam' In The New Administration?
By Thomas D. Segel
May 5, 2009
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The academic examination goes on to explain that after the 1972 election U. S. foreign policy was taken over by Congressional Democrats who caused the United States to abandon South Vietnam and leave that country without its long promised military support. The United States, through political Washington, showed the world we could never be considered trusted allies in any struggle. When America walked out on its allies the South collapsed before Hanoi's forces. Though military leaders argued strongly against such a pullout from Vietnam, the Democrat controlled Congress, bowing to its leftist anti-war base, forced the retreat and were responsible for the resulting Hanoi victory.
We now jump to the year 2009. A new Democrat Administration is in place. It has held total power for less than four months, but we are already seeing political decisions that can demoralize our troops and inflame our enemies.
The Guantanamo detention center was ordered closed. The administration plans to move terrorist detainees to our mainland United States facilities. An executive order has been issued that bans any form of enhanced interrogation, which it has labeled torture. Congress will now attempt to hold open show-hearings on CIA techniques. There is a strong desire on the part of the Democrat Congressional leadership to criminalize Bush Administration war decisions.
The rejection of the term "War on Terror" was announced by the administration. There has been notification of the Obama Administration's new terminology, calling our operations against Islamic terrorists either "Overseas Contingency Operations", or if the action is caused by enemy attacks to call them "Man Made Disasters." They have released secret CIA documents on interrogation techniques that can give aid to the enemy.
The Administration released of hundreds of prison photos that could anger the Islamic world. Democrat members of Congress are already saying they don't want to send too many more troops into combat or authorize too much money, for fear it will extend the war. This is the war, which they already called lost more than two years ago.
All of this has happened in less than 100 days of the new Democrat Congress and the Obama Administration. It doesn't mean defeat yet. But, I smell odors of Vietnam in almost every war related announcement. Remember, if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck?
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