It is time to end this misbegotten war and Maryscott O'Connor of My Left Wing knows how to throw a fit of pure, blissful rage at our Congress' inaction on the war so far. Her words are beautifully put together, even Bill Maher could learn from her for his 'New Rules'. The masterpiece will take you a while to read, but here is a little taste:
It seems to me that the old cliché, "Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it" applies much more to ordinary citizens than to politicians.
In fact, politicians COUNT on that truism. How many people actually know how Vietnam started? How many people further know how our involvement in Vietnam accelerated? How about when the draft was implemented?
And how many know the details of the Weimar Republic, the Reichstag, the supposed "election" of Adolf Hitler, the purported attack by Poland on a German radio station that was, in fact, a falsehood from beginning to end?
The fact that we are, collectively, so very uneducated about humanity's own recent history, is what the right wing counts on when they send out the attack dogs to decry any comparison between Iraq and Vietnam -- and possibly what the Democrats now dragging their feet on the Iraq Quagmire count on as they tell us every day, "Wait, wait, give us more time..."
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