Thank God We’re Still in Vietnam

Posted by Charles Glass on September 13, 2007

There was enough brass in the room to forge a cannon. The generals were all there, the joint chiefs and the commanders from the front lines. They came along to tell the senators why America could not quit now.

“General,” Senator Bullfrog Epidurus interjected in the midst of General Manassas T. Deeyemzee’s testimony, “haven’t we heard all this before? Every year you or your predecessors come here and ask for more money to fight this war. And, every year, we give it to you. Now, you say you have a strategy that can win. But haven’t you said all the other strategies could win?”

“Yes, sir, I did, sir,” the general, his medals and skull shimmering under the television lights, answered. “And all of those strategies could have worked, should have worked, sir, if the military had not had its hands tied behind its back by politicians and the press. That’s one problem. The second, if I can prioritize this for you, sir…”

“Please do,” Senator Epidurus graciously offered. “We could use some priorities around here.”

“The other problem is the deviousness of the enemy. His terroristic ways have the population terrorized, and it’s not easy for our young men, raised in good American homes with sound American values by pure American mothers, to deal with that, sir.”

“Amen, General.” The other senators assented to Senator Epidurus’s Amen, and the general proceeded.

“So, we’ve found a new way to, kind of, get around that problem, sir.”

“And what exactly is that, General Deeyemzee?”

“We’re gonna put a buffer between our boys and the terrorists who are preventing democracy and freedom from taking root.”

“A buffer?”

“Yes, sir, this is the plan I recommended to the Commander-in-Chief, the Bufferization Strategy. Wherever our troops go, there will be a buffer of local forces between them and the population. Locals in local uniforms standing between them and the terrorists. That way, the local forces, the LFs, can interface with folks who are so deranged and crazy – and, I know this isn’t a popular word anymore, just plain ‘evil’ – that we want to protect our boys from that contamination.”

“If you will forgive me, General, that doesn’t sound like much of a strategy to me.”

“Are you saying you don’t want to protect American lives in the theater of war, Senator?” General Deeyemzee had him there.

“Let’s go on, General. Where is the end of the tunnel?”

“I trust, sir, you are not suggestion that, just as we are on the brink of victory, we just pack up and abandon Vietnam?”

“It is an option.”

“Well, sir, I remember as a young lieutenant hearing another senator say something like that back in 1972. What would have happened if President Nixon had bowed to the anti-war pressure and just pulled out of Vietnam? Where would we be then?”

“How many American dead were there when Nixon was thinking of pulling out, General? Wasn’t it 58,000? And, with the attrition rate been pretty constant for the last thirty years, we’ve lost just over 200,000 soldiers up to now. And I don’t know how many Vietnamese have died. Just about the whole country from the numbers I’ve seen. How many more? General, how many more?”

“That is not how the commanders at the front see it, Senator. Every single one of our soldiers is brave and honest and deserves a vote of confidence from his or her elected representatives. How can we look them in the eyes and tell ’em they’re not doing a good job? That it’s all been for nothing?”

“All I can see is that you secure one province for a couple of months, then lose two more. The population flees. Suspected opponents of our presence there disappear. The government is so busy stealing money it doesn’t bother to govern. The people themselves are so divided they are killing one another. And you tell us we are winning. What are we winning, General? What have we achieved between 1963 and 2007 in Vietnam?”

“Well, sir, so far, the country hasn’t gone Muslim.”

The committee chairman, Senator Kissinger B. Brief, banged the gavel: “We’ll move along now. General, I want to thank you for your time and effort in coming here to testify. This is a trying ordeal for you, and I want to thank you on behalf of the American people for all you are doing to keep the light of western fundamental values alive in that dark corner of the world. I don’t think you’ll have any problem getting the appropriation and an okay for another year. We don’t want to leave before we get the job done, do we?”

Somewhere at the end of a burrow in southeast Asia, the wind blew out another candle.

Comments

This is getting to be a great satire site,keep it up.Defund the war now,Edwards is pushing from the left and Ron Paul from the right and 60% of the people agree with them.It should be a very intresting fall.Bush was horrible tonight, no plan, no answers, just more neocon endless war.

Posted by jack on Sep 13, 2007.
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Now thats a new and distasteful comparison.

Ron Paul and Edwards?

I prefer bitterness in the form of a nice and hoppy india pale ale.

I agree its an unusual group, the antiwar right and the antiwar left pushing the mushy middle of both parties to do the right thing and end this war now.

Posted by jack on Sep 14, 2007.
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Yup John Edwards and Ron Paul

We could see some realignment these days.

Edwards is hitting some populist notes which are
resonating in people cranky about the outsourcing
of their jobs and other brilliant “successes” of
our economic policies.

Ron Paul is resonating in the anti-war crowd.

Then the Democrats embraced the pro-life Bob Casey
after they treated his father so shamefully. Could
Bob Casey form a nucleus of social conservatives who
are sick and tired or Republican bait-and-swithc
tactics (i.e. promise to ban abortion, and deliver
free trade with China)?

I keep thinking in France, in the Thirties where
there seemed to be a no man’s land where oddball
leftists and rightist wandered and found agreement
with each other. Where George Valois went from
founding a Fascist party to his own brand of
anarchism, to finally die in a German concentration
camp. Where the leftist Simone Weil worked in the
farm of Gustave Thibon, of the Action Francaise, and
left him her writing, which he published after her
death, convinced that he had met the closest thing to
a saint there was. Where the rightist George Bernanos
and the leftist Albert Camus could find how much they
had in common.

Could we be facing such a no man’s land here?

My second(and last) attempt, after several ‘glitches’
·/·
I’ve always thought that defeating the War Party would be an unqualified victory for, both -Conservatives and Liberals.
My men are Kucinich, Ron Paul, Mike Gravel and nobody else (what a preposterous idea to put Edwards on this list).
Their difference is trifle compared to their consensus on this War which is eating the soul of our Republic.
What counts is that they would stop the War, the gay-mariages and abortions, frankly, can wait.

PeterRV
“Their difference is trifle compared to their consensus on this War which is eating the soul of our Republic. What counts is that they would stop the War, the gay-mariages and abortions, frankly, can wait.”

Exactly!  Let’s end this preemptive war/occupation so we can get back to having fun arguing about burning flags,oral sex and welfare mothers.

@PeteRV

Did you see Dennis Kucinic in the Tucker Carlson show?

Dennis was trying to talk about the Iraqui refugees in
Syria, which include a lot of Christians, and that SOB
Tucker kept turning the talk as to whether it was right
for him to go to Syria and give its dictator a public
relations bust.

“For there are none more blind than those who do not
wish to see”

(My second attempt)
@ Adriana
No, I didn’t but I’ve heard about it.

It is also easy for me to imagine that ‘faccia di culo’ Tucker’s face with an ear to ear smile, choked with laughter, winking at his chosen audience for approval.

@PeterRV

Exactly, smile ear to ear, winking to audience,
pointing out what a naive fool Kucinic was.

He also, not so long ago, when discussing about
admitting Iraqui refugees said, why should we?
have’t we done enough for them already? Is it our
fault that they cannot live in democracy?

And he also was cheering for the war and badmouthing
“liberals” who opposed it until it turned soud.

May I ask what happened to my post just sent as an answer to Adriana’s?

Nothing yet.( How come this comes out?)

Well?

If you do a google search for the leading candidates for US president you will get these results:

Hilary Clinton - 16.5 million
Rudy Giuliani - 2.3 million
John McCain - 3.4 million
Barak Obama - 4 million
John Edwards - 48 million
Fred Thompson - 14.1 million
Ron Paul - 54.5 million

I like to call it the “googulator”, a fancy prognostication tool for the blogosphere.

Notice who is leading the pack by a cool six million hits: that Paul guy.

However, if anything blows up unexpectedly between now and the republican primary nest year, i expect Rudy’s numbers to go through the roof.

He’s America’s own “Cop on the Beat” (cue soundtrack to TV show “Cops")

Also, keep in mind that Rudy is the Likud party’s preferred candidate.

Hmmm…

Posted by alex on Sep 16, 2007.
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Liberals and neoconservatives say there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into ALL white countries and ONLY into white countries.

The Netherlands and Belgium are as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.

Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for ALL white countries and ONLY white countries to assimilate, i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.

What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?

How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?

And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?

But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, liberals and neoconservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.

Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.

Posted by Nigel on Sep 16, 2007.
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@Nigel

About intermarriage

Whites cannot intermarry unless blacks, Indians, and
Orientals also intermarry. Thus it is not only white
genes that get diluted. The reason why whites seem
to be dwindling is because of the way the problem
is stated. If all the products of intermarriage are
called non-white, of course, whites will dwindle, if
they are counted as much by one parent as by the
others, white are spreading out and becoming more
numerous.

For example, in Spain the family Primo de Rivera is
part of the nobility (they are marquises). Along the
line one of their ancestors married a guarani indian,
and had half-breed children, who when they grew up
were counted as Spaniards. Thus after several generationsn,
General Miguel Primo de Rivera, with an American
Indian in his family tree had blond hair and blue eyes.

Adriana,

If you want to apply for membership into any of the newly formed aristocratic societies in the U.S. or Europe, then you must be of pure Anglo / European blood.

Besides, the one-drop rule says that if you have any none-white blood in you, you are non-white, and this is a sound rule.

As both Russell Kirk and Richard M. Weaver argued in the 1950s, miscegenation simply is wrong.  For most of history, the races have been separated, and should be.  As Kirk said, “It would be reckless indeed to tamper with an institution as ancient as segregation.”

“We remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we’re a new Mestizo nation.”

“Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes…”

“We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.”

– Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, founder of La Raza

“Around the year 2040, whites will become a minority in the United States and, believe me, it will be ‘payback time’.”

- Pro-Immigration Activist, Jorge Sanchez

“And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that in my estimation is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.”

- African Studies professor, Dr. Kamau Kambon

“Blond hair and blue eyes are a biological defect.”

“The white race is a disease, and the only cure is a bullet. The rule of whites is history. Soon they will be our serfs. It’s now the Age of the Brown Man.”

- Hindu nationalist, Ramesh Sharma

“The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists. Make no mistake about it we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed–not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed.”

- Jewish studies professor, Dr Noel Ignatiev

.

I was explaining to you the math.

If you have to sets A and B, and you treat all mixtures
AB as B then, of course, the way you count, B will
always increase, and A will always increase. If you
count ABs as A, then A increases, and B decreases.

If you count them as neither, then AB increases and
both A and B decrease.

The funny part is that the numbers are the same.

So your “one drop rule” creates the problem you fear.

“Lack of sense of your part does not constitute an
emergency of my part”

Aristrocratic societies?

New aristocratic societies?

Composed of new aristocrats?

sorry, I may be interested in members of old aristocracies
as their family history is intertwined with that of
their countries. But a bunch of parvenus who have all the
deffects of aristocracies but none of the saving graces?

Frankly I could not care less about what they do.

About pure Anglo/European blood where does that
leave the Italians who ran the Roman Empire when the
Anglos were a bunch of savages who painted themselves
blue?

The Greeks, from whom we derive the classic knowledge?
We still read Greek writers. Have you read any druids
lately? Or Saxon shamanistic writings?

How about the Spaniards who were the foremost power
in Europe?

Your aristocratic clubs seem to be excluding some
excellent stock already. What do they do at the
meetings, those Anglo stock? Paint themselves blue and
intone ancient pagan chants to some idol? Do they prove
Cicero right when he said that Anglos were useless for
anything?

Adriana,

From what he writes, he said “EUROPEAN.” Greeks and Romans, last time I checked, are European.

Chill out.

D

Posted by Brian on Sep 17, 2007.
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Adriana,

From what he says, he said “EUROPEAN.” Greeks and Italians, last time I checked, are European.

D

Posted by Brian on Sep 17, 2007.
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I would not be so sure about the European part. They
used to say about Spain “Africa begins at the Pyrenees”.
so you never know.

Adriana I am 1/2 Italian, we enslaved and mixed with everyone Jew, Egyptian, Gaul Celtic and German.We should close the borders and let the melting pot mix.I am with Saint Paul when he said “no more Jew or gentile no more male or female no more slave or free we are all one in Jesus Christ.Catholic means universal to all mankind and thats where I belong.

Posted by jack on Sep 17, 2007.
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I am 1/2 Spanish, who were also famous for
mixing it up with anyone of the opposite sex.

The Blue Division who fought for the Axis in
Russia (Franco had declared himself “non
belligerant” between the Allies and Germany,
“belligerant” against Russia and for Germany,
and also “blligerant” against Japan and for
the Allies - the Japanese where persecuting
hispanics in the Philippines). Unlike the
Germans, they left a lot of good memories
among the Russian people. One of the headaches
of the commanding officer were the romances
between his soldiers and Russian girls, and had
to tell them of the that the girls were Orthodox,
not catholic, and if they wanted to marry them they
had to get permission from a priest.

“White Paleo” said, “the one-drop rule says that if you have any none-white blood in you, you are non-white, and this is a sound rule.”

So I guess that means you’re not one of the
“reformist” KKK, like the ones in this article in The Onion:

“Reformist Ku Klux Klan Splinter Group Claims Blacks, Jews May Be Partially Human…
...Today, the Klan’s fragile, hard-won cohesion is unraveling, as a splinter group of progress-minded Klansmen is challenging one of the group’s most dearly held beliefs: the subhuman, animal status of non-White minorities. This small group of reformers is claiming nothing less than that blacks and Jews may be partially related to human, or White, beings. And that has many in the Klan crying foul.
..."New advances in the mapping of the human genome show that there’s a strong possibility that blacks and Jews—and perhaps even the wily Chinee—are partially human, sharing some genetic characteristics with Whites,” said Reform KKK Grand Exalted Cyclops Darrell Walker, speaking from the splinter group’s Birmingham headquarters. “I didn’t set out to be a crusader, but we cannot blindly shut out the truth, however disturbing it may be. If we do, we are as bad as the filthy, savage blacks and Jews themselves, for as Jesus said, we have eyes but do not see.”

Pastor Fred Knox of Smyrna, GA, Grand Exalted Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, disagreed. “These liberal scum are selling out everything right and true that they profess to believe in,” Knox said. “They do not deserve to wear the robes and hoods of a true Klansman. It pains my heart to hear such lies from the mouth of a White man.”

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29578

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