Posted by aogMonday, 05 March 2007 at 08:02 TrackBack Ping URL

Some boys don't grow up, they just move to bigger woodlands

Best of the Web has a reference to another data point on the “the MAL is proud of causing the defeat of South Vietnam” thesis, via this article —

“There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment . . . just like in the days of Vietnam,” [Senator Charles] Schumer said. “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.”

As noted, why would anyone want to do this and more notably publically proclaim that he wanted to do this unless one was proud of having done so? Note also the isolationist basis — there’s no concern about Iraq or Iraqis, or American foreign policy, only with the current risks for the troops.

The statement also has the air of a little boy torturing small woodland creatures. Rather than forcing the issue straight up and legislating a surrender in Iraq, Schumer and his ilk want to drag it out, “slow bleed” the executive branch’s effort. It would also seem to be a strong indication of what Schumer et. al. think of the view of the American Street that they still dare not come out blantantly against the occupation.