Saving an agenda

Return of the cheese eating surrender monkeys

Here are the lead paragraphs from yesterday's New York Sun editorial, 'Relentless'. "There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment . . . just like in the days of Vietnam. The pressure will mount, the president will find he has no strategy, he will have to change his strategy, and the vast majority of our troops will be taken out of harm's way and come home." *** That is the threat from Senator Schumer, who said Democrats would be "relentless," according to a report by Margaret Talev of McClatchy Newspapers that was brought to our attention Tuesday by James Taranto's Best of the Web Today on Opinionjournal.com. The fateful — or fatal —series of votes against the war in Vietnam came after the election of November 1974, when the Democrats sharply expanded their control of the House of Representatives and began moving against foreign and military aid to the free government in the South, a government to which we were bound under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty. America had reached its peace agreement with the Vietnamese communists in 1973, but the regime in Hanoi violated provision after provision. The votes in the 93rd and 94th Congresses came in the face of an all-too-typical communist perfidy, while a nation of tens of millions fought desperately to stave off a communist conquest. It is an astounding thing that, from a remove of but 32 years, one of the leading figures in the Senate can boast of his plan to repeat the betrayal of Vietnam. Those who were involved at the time, or those who have been serious students of the period, just shake their heads in amazement at the senator's arrogance. It is well to remember that when the 94th United States Congress took the step that doomed our ally, there were no American GIs fighting in Vietnam. There was only the free government to which our country had given its assurances and which had acted on our signal in a war in which our own country had an interest. What happened in 1975 was not about saving American lives. It was about saving the agenda of the left. It appears the Pelosi-Murtha 'Meat-Grinder" bill is dead in its current form (not enough votes), but the Sunday talks were loaded with idiots like Schumer and Biden who are intent on usurping the Commander-in-Chief's role by redefining our mission statement in Iraq, and repealing the 2002 Iraq war resolution.  My favorite retort came from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) who said of its legality (from memory) "No court would arbitrate that, and no President would pay any attention to it." The Sun editorial said it all,  "...  not about saving American lives. It was about saving the agenda of the left."