No, you don’t get to win this time
By Fred Barnes, author of quite possibly the worst “book” about The Decider, continues to grace his pig of a war with lipstick and pearl earrings.
Bush can be expected to hold firm in his pursuit of victory in Iraq. If Petraeus achieves a breakthrough in pacifying Baghdad and then in controlling insurgent-dominated Anbar province, the war opponents must stand down. If they refuse to acknowledge success and cause a repeat of the Vietnam calamity, they should be held accountable. This time, self-inflicted defeat should not be met with silence.
Reanimating the false history that insists Vietnam War was turning around before the dirty hippies got involved, Barnes insists that “victory” in Iraq is close at hand. Leaving that evidence-free assertion aside for a moment, I eagerly await to Barnes’ revisitation of the problem sometime in June 2007:
Bush can be expected to hold firm in his pursuit of victory in Iraq. However, now that Petraeus has failed to achieve a breakthrough in pacifying Baghdad and controlling insurgent-dominated Anbar province, the war supporters such as myself must stand down at long last. If we refuse to acknowledge failure and cause a repeat of the Vietnam calamity, we should be held accountable.