It's totally partisan to just blame the liberals, or to just blame the conservatives.
You are so, so wrong. Vietnam was PURELY an LBJ creation. I don't think for a minute that JFK would have run that war as a weak leader the way LBJ did. LBJ and McNamara created a mess it took Nixon and Ford to clean up.
Then Carter took office. Four years later, our foreign policy was, again, a wreck. It was the beginning of the anti-Americanism we're seeing today. Carter's weakness contributed mightily to where we are. Hell, his rescue attempt turned into a worst case scenario, much like Clinton's Black Hawk Down (except Carter managed to do this without the enemy shooting at our guys). One of the key liberal issues in the race between Carter an Ford had been the fear of the Cold War nuclear proliferation.
So, after 8 years of Reagan, the Cold War ends, American foreign policy is back on top. Four years of Bush 41, we handed Saddam one of the most remarkable defeats in military history.
It is handed over the Clinton, and look at the wreck he left Bush.
Anyway you cut it, when you put a weak liberal in office, our foreign policy will be in a shambles when that liberal leaves. At least, that is how it has been in my 50 years. |
