news…

The communist-controlled U.S. Congress cut funds for the ARVN to the point where doctors were told to wash and reuse surgical bandages, and soldiers were issued 20 rounds of ammunition and 2 hand grenades. If we lose Iraq, it’ll be to the same kind of enemy.

The only way to save the situation in Iraq is to appoint an American governor-general, and make it instant execution for any non-American to be caught with a weapon in public. ANY non-American. They can keep their democratically elected govenrment, it will just answer to America, as should have been the case from the day we crossed the border.

What if the US hadn’t fought against Communism in Vietnam from 1963 to 1975?

South Vietnam would probably have collapsed in 1964, followed soon afterwards by Cambodia and Laos, and then Thailand. Communism was a powerful force in India in those days. If it had swept across Asia, Communism could have spread to Africa and Ba’athism could have been the dominant ideology in the Middle East.

The early 1970s proved the domino theory was right: all of Indo-China fell to violent Communism, and Cambodia vanished into genocide and cannibalism presided over by the Khymer Rouge. The decade-long fight in Vietnam had enabled the US to erect a firewall in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

Sound familiar?

Meanwhile, watch Russia, Venezuela, Iran and possibly the entire middle-east form a new and hostile OPEC, with China as their best customer. Islam, their stooges, will do the dying. And us.

So I;m afraid the battle lines are forming. Europe is to all intents an purposes already lost, a hostage to the Russian natural gas taps.

That’s probably the most interesting part of the book, but it was written a year or two before deGaulle, and the author did not foresee the rise of Islam

He did more or less predict that America would defeat the Soviet Union, just as Rome defeated Carthage

The lessons are on the limits and risks of having global power, and the strains that such power put on a democracy

Tony Blair has appealed to Iran and Syria to become partners with the West in the search for Middle East peace, in a ground-breaking interview with al-Jazeera’s new English news channel.

The Tony Blair interview was a coup for the new channel
Speaking to Sir David Frost, one of the network’s several big-name signings, he said the door was open for both countries to play a constructive role in resolving the problems of the region.

He insisted that his approach did not amount to “appeasement”, and said that the states must renounce support for terrorism as a pre-condition for closer relations. – Telegraph

Likewise, Chamberlain’s approach in Munich 1938 was not appeasement either…………………….

No wonder that it’s called the United Kingdom instead of the British Empire!

…and even that’s a stretch!

Imagine – they’re our actual friends!

The concept of America as Rome comes from a book called “The Coming Caesars” by Amaury de Reincourt, published almost fifty years ago. There are some interesting parallels, but it’s not roadmap.

Any nation with a worldwide reach will have near-constant ‘border wars’/ The 90s were the exception, not the rule ( and not due to Clinton’s genius at foreign policy ). To live long and prosper, American leaders need to know When to Hold ‘Em and When to Fold ‘Em

Janos Hunyadi on November 17, 2006 at 8:54 PM

Yep, we do -

However, the concept of America as Rome really becomes apparent in the almost fifty years after the book was released.

Look around today and see if you can see the parallels.

Now imagine – instead of Chamberlain, we have this!

May God help us all!

After his apparent admission that the intervention had been a disaster, he insisted: “We are not walking away from Iraq. We will stay for as long as the Government needs us to stay. – Tony Blair to David Frost

I agree with Blair – they won’t walk away – they’ll run!!!!!!!

Ah, but for the “good ‘ol days” of Munich, 1938 when Chamberlain led the Empire headlong into oblivion……

Let me guess, my last post didn’t get through because I said the F-word.

Okay, how about: May God roast George Bush in the lowest pits of hell.

And also with you.

I don’t even know why I ever read the comments here. It just proves that there really are few differences between the extremes on right and left.
Did some of you guys get kicked out of the looney bin at FR, or something?

Any nation with a worldwide reach will have near-constant ‘border wars’/ The 90s were the exception, not the rule ( and not due to Clinton’s genius at foreign policy ). To live long and prosper, American leaders need to know When to Hold ‘Em and When to Fold ‘Em

Carthage ( the USSR ) has been defeated, thanks to Cato and others, but there are always Parthians and Gauls and Germans…..

Janos Hunyadi on November 17, 2006 at 6:15 PM

So which roles to the Latin Americans, the ChiComs and Islamists play?

If we cut and run, who plays Pol Pot this time? My money is on Ahmadinejad, but he seems intent on commiting genocide on someone other than his own people.

Looks like the battle is now going to be the Chinese-led Communists versus the Islamists, with America as the battleground.

Okay, how about: May God roast George Bush in the lowest pits of hell.

Carthage ( the USSR ) has been defeated, thanks to Cato and others, but there are always Parthians and Gauls and Germans…..

Guess they couldn’t get a bigger bust huh?

Dude. You know how many communist kids’ organs have to be sold to buy a bust of that quality. LOTS!

I heard Bush’s statements on the radio this morning. Un-effing-believable.

I renounce any – ANY – support for him. He is now a menace to our own country.

There is a big difference between Vietnam and Iraq that I haven’t heard anyone mention. In Vietnam we were fighting for the South Vietnamese, who had a capitalist country that had been Westernized to a large extent that had the peaceful religions and philosophies of Catholicism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

In Iraq we are fighting for this.

This is why the American people are getting fed up. In any case, what dominoes could fall next after Iraq? Iran? Syria? The Vietnam, Iraq comparisons don’t make sense.