Kissinger Compares Iraq to Vietnam

From the Progressive:

It is apparent now to everyone: A majority of the American public sees the Iraq war as a dreadful mistake. Remember the outrage at the suggestion that Iraq might become a quagmire? Yesterday Henry Kissinger drew a parallel between Iraq and Vietnam, acknowledging the public's reluctance to "stay the course" with the President in what looks like a hopeless situation

"If a radical government emerges in Baghdad or if any part of Iraq becomes what Afghanistan used to be, a training ground for terrorists, then this will be a catastrophe for the Islamic world and for Europe, much as they may -- reluctant as they may be to admit it -- and eventually for us," Kissinger told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

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During the waning days of the Johnson administration, Kissinger made sure that the South Vietnamese rejected a peace plan sponsored by the White House that had a good chance of ending the war--indeed, the treaty the Nixon administration finally used to pull out our troops was almost identical to the one Kissinger scuttled. The idea was to make sure that the unpopular war dragged on, increasing Nixon's chances of winning, which he did easily after Johnson dropped out.

During his campaign, Nixon offered voters "peace with honor," which actually meant "victory." In other words, Nixon and Kissinger wanted to fight a war that Johnson's advisors had already decided America couldn't win because they thought were smarter and would succeed where the pansy Democrats failed. Of course, they were wrong, but Kissinger will never admit it. To this day he believes the reason we lost in Vietnam is because the public wouldn't support doing what it would take to win. In other words, he doesn't think we lost; he thinks we quit. Now it sounds like he thinks we're about to quit again. My bet is that his weird strategic brain has developed a special power--Kissinger is psychically sensitive, no doubt, to American disgust with immoral and illegal wars.

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