Steyn - Vietnam parallels

Finally

Me, and every other schmo on the internet have been pointing at parallels between Vietnam-/Islamo fascist wars for what? Six years?   Today's  protest organizers are the same leftists who undercut us ago.  The current version read from that old script so faithfully that I've been Déjà vu-d nearly to death. Hell, there's even a new Chicago Seven planning to disrupt the Democrat convention in Minneapolis.  But, for some reason the administration  never used this history as a weapon against these anarchists, communists and their mushroom brain followers.  I've got to think that Ed Gillespie felt the same way, because since he took over from Karl Rove, I'm liking what I hear.   But, I can't compete with Mark Steyn.  Here's  the opener to his column on the end-game,  They wait for us to run again. “ George W. Bush gave a speech about Iraq last week, and in the middle of it he did something long overdue: He attempted to appropriate the left's most treasured all-purpose historical analogy. Indeed, Vietnam is so ubiquitous in the fulminations of politicians, academics and pundits that we could really use anti-trust legislation to protect us from shopworn historical precedents. But, in the absence thereof, the president has determined that we might at least learn the real "lessons of Vietnam." "Then as now, people argued the real problem was America's presence and that if we would just withdraw, the killing would end," Bush told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention Aug. 22. "Many argued that if we pulled out there would be no consequences for the Vietnamese people … . A columnist for the New York Times wrote in a similar vein in 1975, just as Cambodia and Vietnam were falling to the communists: 'It's difficult to imagine,' he said, 'how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone.' A headline on that story, dateline Phnom Penh, summed up the argument: 'Indochina Without Americans: For Most a Better Life.' The world would learn just how costly these misimpressions would be." ” Thanks to Inspector Hamilton for the heads-up.