Savage: It’s Time For Iraq’s “Saigon”
On the Savage Nation (God knows why I still flip in, even on occasion) tonight, Michael Savage opined that “at least in Vietnam, we got to see the last helicopters leaving Saigon. Thank God. When are we going to see the last helicopters leave Baghdad? Five years and we still haven’t finished this mess? When will the helicopters leave?”
It’s amazing to me that any “self professed intellectual” would yearn for a “Saigon moment” in Iraq. Our flight from Vietnam, with South Vietnamese trying to cling to our helicopters is one of the most shameful moments in American history, and the images of that day are heartbreaking. Following our departure, millions were killed, and hundreds of thousands died trying to flee the Communist dictatorships set up in our absense. Our “defeat” in Vietnam has been used by every force that we have faced since as a reason to keep killing our troops even after we have crippled their military (hoping for a civilian retreat).
That bears repeating: Our retreat from Vietnam has directly led to every dead soldier in Iraq today.
The same thing will be true if we flee Iraq. We’ll send American troops back in under the UN (that is unarmed) after real genocide and civil war take place in the middle east. And the next time we have to use the military, it’ll just give the next force we fight a reason to keep killing our troops long after defeat is certain.
Absolutely shameful. What a douche.
