Res Publica 2005

Martinipundit says it so beautifully and succinctly:

America has lost but one war - Vietnam. America has changed horses in mid-stream while the country was at war but once - 1968 in the midst of Vietnam which the Left likes to think of as Nixon’s war. Although largely squirreled away down the memory hole, the anti-war Democrats brought down Lyndon Johnson. They hated Johnson because of the war. They thought they would replace him with Robert Kennedy - and they might have but for Sirhan Sirhan. And then John Kerry came home and testified before Congress. Nixon tried vainly to win something that would allow the US to exit with some shred of dignity, but he failed. The Left likes to tell us that Vietnam was illegal, immoral, and that we never should have been there in the first place. What they don’t like to tell you is that it wasn’t the North Vietnamese but the Left with John Kerry in the front rank holding aloft the bloody shirt of war crimes who defeated America.

They’d like a second crack at it too. I say, let’s deny them this time.