Hugh Hewitt has a Telling Point

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Most of us have lived through this scene once, and we made the wrong choice then. Which is why I find it so frustrating that a certain very vocal segment of the population apparently has amnesia about the consequences of that decision, and wants us to make the same damned mistake again. We got lucky last time when Reagan saved us. Remember the national mood of the late 1970s? Remember how precarious our position in the Cold War, and the world in general, appeared? If you're too young, ask someone who does remember - don't take my word for it.



For those who want me to go on the record about Vietnam, it may have been a Huge Mistake to commit our resources to it the way Johnson did. Actually, I'll go further and say it was the second worst mistake we've made in the last fifty years. But it was the all time grand champion, retire the prize because there will never be another mistake this boneheaded moment when having won on the battlefields, we allowed ourselves to be bluffed into cutting out on our allies. I would rather have been drafted on my eighteenth birthday and spent the next twenty years on a battlefield than what we went through then.



Our enemies today haven't forgotten that we were that stupid once. They are hoping they can convince us to be that stupid again. I'm a fat middle aged guy in questionable health with a young family. But I love that family enough that I refuse to allow my head to be placed in the sand so I can hope I'll be comfortable for a few more years when my daughters and their children would then have to deal with the consequences of my choice. Which wouldn't be pretty, and would be orders of magnitude worse. I'll buy my own equipment, pay my way over there, and spend the rest of my no-doubt short life trying to finish the job first. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?



As Instapundit said a few days ago, if I cannot label such people asshats, the word has no justification for existing.

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