Napoleon in the White House
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
12/20/06
The standard right-wing myth when it comes to Vietnam is that 'the politicians' sold out the military and lost a war that could have been won. Civilian interference with the strategy and tactics employed by military professionals led to U.S withdrawal from Vietnam, which was not a defeat so much as a victory aborted by subversives on the home front. Or so the story goes. While this idea is refuted by the facts -- it wasn't for nothing that military experts of the time warned against getting involved in a war on the Asian landmass -- at least it represents an attempt to make a rational argument, which is that the conduct of a war is best left to the professionals. In our post-9/11 Bizarro World reality, however, that stance has been completely inverted. Instead of abhorring civilian interference in the military, the neocons are emphatically in favor of it...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10194
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
by Justin Raimondo
12/20/06
The standard right-wing myth when it comes to Vietnam is that 'the politicians' sold out the military and lost a war that could have been won. Civilian interference with the strategy and tactics employed by military professionals led to U.S withdrawal from Vietnam, which was not a defeat so much as a victory aborted by subversives on the home front. Or so the story goes. While this idea is refuted by the facts -- it wasn't for nothing that military experts of the time warned against getting involved in a war on the Asian landmass -- at least it represents an attempt to make a rational argument, which is that the conduct of a war is best left to the professionals. In our post-9/11 Bizarro World reality, however, that stance has been completely inverted. Instead of abhorring civilian interference in the military, the neocons are emphatically in favor of it...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10194
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
rudkla - 20. Dez, 17:01
