President Bush pointing out that allowing the murderers take over Viet Nam led to millions being killed or fleeing is now being ridiculed by the MSM, who editorially point out in news reports that the only reason the people got killed was that the US made them mad, so of course they had to kill people.
But never mind. It's not about history, it's about the baby boomers congratulating themselves for their "courage" in opposing that war. Asians were merely a prop for their narcissism that had nothing to do with reality.
Yet a few things in recent days show that maybe, just maybe things are looking up in Iraq and other places.
ONE: "We've begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Anbar province, it's working," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Monday.
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TWO: Sarkozy's
moves to correct the mistake started even before his election when he
met President George W. Bush at the White House in 2006 and described
Chirac's policy as "arrogant"....
The
new French policy on Iraq could also inspire a change of attitude in
Moscow. With Schroeder and Chirac gone, Putin may find it harder to
pursue an Iraq policy based on nostalgia for Saddam and petty enmity
towards the US....France's return to Iraq strengthens the new
diplomatic trend in favour of a positive attitude towards the new Iraqi
regime. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are among several Arab countries
that have decided to reopen their embassies in Baghdad and extend
official invitations to the new Iraqi leadership.
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Three:
From working with tribal leaders to investing time and money at street-
level, it's essential to "understand the Iraqi style" of doing things.
It's counterinsurgency judo: working with the weight of tradition,
instead of fighting a losing battle against it.
The general recognizes that political progress at the top in Iraq may
lag as an indicator, but local initiatives look like the key to
national success. He believes that, in this case, the politicians will
eventually follow the people - who genuinely want better lives, not
more bickering and butchery.
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Four:
Ironically,
in Anbar Al Qaeda has become our best ally for killing al Qaeda.
They’ve managed to do this directly, just by being al Qaeda. Despite
the promised carrots, what Al Qaeda consistently delivered here was
mostly stick, and with a special kind of hypocritical contempt that no
sensible person would believe possible. (Not unlike the notion of
baking the children of resistant parents or ordering shepards to diaper
the corrupting genitals of goats.)
Al
Qaeda has a management style—doing drugs, laying up sloppy drunk,
raping women and boys, and cutting off heads, all while imposing strict
morality laws on the locals—that makes it clear that they have one set
of principles for themselves, and another for every one else.
In
that kind of scheme, it didn’t take long before people in Anbar
realized that any benefits from Al Qaeda having control would not be
distributed equally. Once that realization spread, the tribal
sheiks—almost all Sunni—had to consider the alternatives.
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Five:
The leader of Iraq's banned Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has
decided to join efforts by the Iraqi authorities to fight al-Qaeda, one
of the party's former top officials, Abu Wisam al-Jashaami, told
pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.
"AlDouri has decided to sever ties with
al-Qaeda and sign up to the programme of the national resistance, which
includes routing Islamist terrorists and opening up dialogue with the
Baghdad government and foreign forces," al-Jashaami said.
Al-Douri
has decided to deal directly with US forces in Iraq, according to
al-Jashaami. He figures in the 55-card deck of "most wanted" officials
from the former Iraqi regime issued by the US government....
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Another German woman was kidnapped last week in Afghanistan last week...with the Korean fisaco, I figured they were after money. Then I read she was "freed"...turns out that the Afghan police, with a little help from Norse special forces found and rescued her...
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Here in the Philippines war is breaking out
Manuel QuezonIII discusses how the Islamic terror groups spin their war...they cause a "humanitarian crisis" it allows the left and leftist countries to pressure the government to stop fighting...and they can start other terrorist acts which of course will never be blamed on them by the international community...
And the aim is a caliphate...and if you think he is extreme, just remember last week's meeting in Indonesia said the same thing.