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To: Sully- who wrote (25643)	2/20/2007 7:06:42 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

'Just Like in the Days of Vietnam' Schumer makes it official: He wants another Vietnam! Best of the Web Today BY JAMES TARANTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 As Congress's majority Democrats consider their next moves on Iraq, New York's senior senator is getting nostalgic, this report from the McClatchy-Tribune wire suggests: <<< Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats would be "relentless." "There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment . . . just like in the days of Vietnam," 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." >>> Why would anyone want to replay "the days of Vietnam"? The outcome of that war was a defeat for America and a humanitarian disaster for the people of South Vietnam and Cambodia. This column has long argued that antiwar ideologues, a group that includes a significant number of elected Democrats, viewed America's defeat in Vietnam as a victory for them--the enemy of my country is my friend and all that. But Schumer is no antiwar ideologue. He voted for the Iraq war. His eagerness for another Vietnam can be explained only as an act of political opportunism. Yet here is where the Vietnam analogy really falls apart. It's hard to see any way in which Democrats benefited politically from becoming the anti-Vietnam party. In 1972 their antiwar nominee carried one state. They did well in 1974 and 1976, but more because of Watergate than Vietnam. And after the ineffectual leadership of Jimmy Carter, Democrats were not able to win the White House again until after the Soviet Union had disintegrated. It is said that generals always fight the last war. Gen. Schumer is trying to fight this war using the same tactics that lost the last war for both the country and his party. (Hat tip: Mark Coffey.) opinionjournal.com kansascity.com senate.gov decision08.net

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