{"id":27988,"date":"2011-12-19T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27988"},"modified":"2011-12-19T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:02:54","slug":"peace-with-honor-a-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27988","title":{"rendered":"Peace With Honor – A Reprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Good evening. I have asked for this radio and television time tonight for the purpose of announcing that we today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia.”\u00a0<\/em> Richard Nixon January 23,\u00a0 1973<\/p>\n

“I would describe our troops as having succeeded in the mission of giving to the Iraqis their country in a way that gives them a chance for a successful future”.<\/em>\u00a0 Barrack Obama December 2011<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Parallels are iffy things at best and I don’t want to get bogged down in quibbling over each minute detail, if you please?<\/p>\n

Don Surber has a post up that got me thinking. He’s declared “Victory in Iraq<\/a>” and that declaration troubles me.<\/p>\n

As the United States leaves Iraq after more than 8 years of war, liberals are feeding defeat to a war-weary nation that just wants its troops to come home.<\/p>\n

We won in Iraq. Mission Accomplished. It cost 4,500 American lives and maybe 10 times that number in Iraqi lives. The Iraqi death toll \u2014 50,000 in 8 yearts \u2014 was a far cry from the 300,000 Iraqis killed by the Saddam Hussein regime or the million lives lost in the ill-fated Iraqi-Iranian War.<\/p>\n

It cost taxpayers $800 billion? That works out to one-sixth of the defense spending in that time. The U.S. government now borrows $800 billion every 7 months so the argument that we drained our Treasury on this war is false and hypocritical. We drain our Treasury on \u201centitlement\u201d programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not particularly profound to want to add TIME WILL TELL to the equation.<\/p>\n

I can’t help but wonder where we’d all be if the allies had stopped at the German border and went home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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