Staying The Course And Winning The War

In a speech yesterday to the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars, President Bush compared the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to WWII and Vietnam. However, instead of admitting defeat and comparing our losses to those suffered in Vietnam, he made it perfectly clear what it will take to defeat and enemy who he compared to Nazis and Imperial Kamikazes led by an evil ideology.

The War was not waged by us, but against us. We were attacked on our sovereign soil. Now the enemy uses suicide tactics in an effort to deter the American people from war because of its brutality. In an interview with Osama Bin Laden shortly after the 9/11 attacks, he stated “the American people had risen against their government’s war in Vietnam. And they must do the same today”.

The goal of the Islamic extremists is to terrify the American people to the point where we demand that our government brings our troops home. If we do this, they have won. Pulling out of Vietnam may have saved some American lives but how many South Vietnamese were tortured and killed after we left?

President Bush stated, “today the violent Islamic extremists who fight us in Iraq are as certain of their cause as the Nazis, or the Imperial Japanese, or the Soviet communists were of theirs. They are destined for the same fate.…So long as we remain true to our ideals, we will defeat the extremists in Iraq and Afghanistan…”.

In Gary Bauer’s “End of Day” report he states the following, “Hitler and Hirohito were not intimidated by our ideals. They were not defeated by diplomacy. It took blood and iron to bring Berlin to its knees. It took the horror of atomic destruction to pacify the kamikazes. It will take much more than our “ideals” to prevent another Dark Age from engulfing the civilized world. Securing America’s future will require the sacrifice of lives and treasure. Our veterans understand that, even if too many of our elites do not”.