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02/16/2004: "Just a Gigolo..."

Thirty years is a long time and a lot has happened since the end of the Vietnam War. It seems rather ridiculous to me that Terry McAuliffe wants to dredge up all the muck that surrounded one of our most tumultuous times in history by accusing a sitting President of being AWOL from his service in the National Guard. Seems even more ridiculous that Presidential hopeful John Kerry is dusting off his medals to be proudly displayed by the “decorated war hero” throughout this campaign after trying to distance himself from it in the aftermath of the war. Truth be told, thirty years ago, the antiwar movement in this country would have been saluting George Bush for not having set foot in Vietnam and condemning John Kerry as a “baby killer in an illegitimate war” for having been in Vietnam.

The Vietnam era occurred during the height of the Cold War and left deep scars in this country that would take three decades to heal. For the next thirty years, America would flounder, not sure of her principals. America was afraid to use her military power to do good in this world for fear it would turn out to be “another Vietnam quagmire.” War was no longer seen as a necessary evil but just an evil. The accomplishments of the WWII generation would be put on the back burner and quickly forgotten and the Vietnam Vet would become the scourge of society. What did you expect from a bunch of hippies? The intellectualism of the “make love not war” generation would culminate as a political force only through its support by the mainstream media hungry for something to report. I said it then and I’ll say it to this day. The greatest failure of my country was the April 30, 1975 pullout of the last soldiers from Saigon. With greater than fifty-five thousand Americans dead in vain who tried to prevent the spread of Communism; we said to the world that we don’t have the stomach for a tough fight and set the wheels of terrorism in motion because we blinked. The war, death, and destruction had been essentially over since the Paris Peace agreement in January of 1973. All we had to do was fund the peace. But the Democratically held Congress refused to do it and the un-opposed North Vietnam invasion of South Vietnam led to the slaughter that followed as we pulled out. That blood is on their hands. And amazingly, they would do it again to Iraq. History repeats itself for those who learn no lessons from it. John “F’ing” Kerry voted to not fund the peace in Iraq. He came home from the Vietnam War and accused American soldiers en masse of rape, torture, and dismemberment of innocent Vietnamese as if this was the status quo and not the exception. And now he wants to be the Commander in Chief of the sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters of the forces he previously served with and then betrayed.

The antiwar crowd and the mainstream media tried to feed us the same crap again with the Iraq war. Surprisingly, it didn’t really work on the American mind during the pre-invasion stage of the Gulf War Part Two. Probably because the products of the “anti-establishment” group had become the yuppies of the eighties and figured out that having money “a la establishment” made life a lot more comfortable. The second reason was probably because they weren’t on drugs any longer except for antibiotics to cure the sexually transmitted diseases that ran rampant following the make love era. (It took awhile for these intellectuals to realize that when you reduce sex to a mere biologic function, it becomes about as exciting as your morning constitutional causing them to suffer a further loss of their hedonistic pleasures.)

Current studies show that the generation being cultivated for our future leadership are much more conservative than their parents. That’s a good thing and there is no better example than the United States military currently serving in Iraq. These kids get it. They get the fact that terrorism should be our number one priority. They get the fact that left unchecked; terrorism will destroy our economy and society, as we know it. They get the fact that there are just some people in this world that need killin’ because you can’t reason with them. They get the fact that most politicians check which way the wind is blowing each day before they slither up to the podium to declare their righteous stance of the day. They get the fact that they have a Commander in Chief with a clear vision for the safety and survival of America and they are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country. They get the fact that there really are some things worth dying for.

America finds itself at an important crossroad one more time. John Kerry described himself as an internationalist some thirty years ago desiring the might of the United States to only be used under the auspices and sanctification of the United Nations. A lot has changed in thirty years and a lot hasn’t. Very frightening that the Axis of Weasels should be empowered to decide my fate through this man’s leadership or lack of it.