|
If this invasion has been that "success" the plotters dreamed of...flowers at our feet, oil paying for everything, troops back home in 30 days and so on...ya think those who supported this invasion would look at us as "wayward" sheep. Hell no, we'd be ostracized as the sticks in the mud...the defeatists and the PR fall-out would have been so bad I doubt we'd see a real functioning Democratic party today. But still that wouldn't have changed my opposition on bit. I've strongly believed this invasion was wrong from the outset and feel more and more vindicated every day. Little that helps as the death and corruption continues.
No matter how this sad episode turns out, there will be those on the right who will blame us for every mistake and attrocity they committed. If not directly, then by guilt-by-association. While I still feel my anti-war activism during Viet Nam, along with millions of others, helped keep that war from killing 100,000 rather than 50,000 and forced an end to American involvement...something a vast majority agreed with at the time...you'd be hard-pressed to get that point of view. Under their goofy world view, we were close to "winning" in Vietnam..."our troops never lost a battle". What they miss is that a victory is assured when a stable peace is achieved...one that can stand on its own...not a truce, not a "peace with honor". Instead, these asshats think the only way to honor those who've already died in vain is to send more to their deaths. I'm hoping this time, those who favored all this carnage and corruption are not only brought to justice, but those who supported them are soundly and roundly condemned for the bloodsuckers and profiteers that they are.
Cheers...
|