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Barack Obama laid an egg last night ( From Hotair ):

The other side can label and name-call all they want, but I trust the American people to recognize that it is not surrender to end the war in Iraq so that we can rebuild our military and go after Al Qaida’s leaders.

I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.

OK, let’s look at this a little better. 

• Roosevelt did talk to the Japanese.  They were telling us to leave them alone so they could invade China. 
• Roosevelt did talk to Hitler.  He told us to leave them alone so they could unify Europe, one country at a time. 
• While Roosevelt was talking to the Japanese, they bombed Pearl Harbor. 
• Rather than talking even more, Roosevelt put together the mightiest military machine ever assembled.  In other words, Roosevelt realized Obama’s idea sucked and Bush’s idea worked. 
• Although Truman talked a little with the Japanese.  He dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese when they didn’t surrender exactly as he saw fit. 
• Truman didn’t negotiate with North Korea, he sent troops.  They are there to this day, fifty years later.
• Kennedy didn’t negotiate with Castro over the Cuban Missile Crisis.  He surrounded the island with the Navy and dared the Russians to do something about it.  Castro blinked. 
• Kennedy didn’t negotiate with Castro to leave power, he tried to do it covertly with military in the Bay of Pigs fiasco. 
• Kennedy did NOT negotiate with the North Vietnamese.  The French and United Nations told Kennedy  to go help them fight a war and left us holding the bag.

It wasn’t technically a “surrender” to leave Saigon.  However, when we exited, Saigon ceased to exist, the South Vietnamese governmet was eliminated and South Vietnam became a part of communist North Vietnam, which is what the entire war was aimed at preventing.  Additionally, several million innocent people lost their lives due to the vacuum of power that allowed the Khmer Rouge to run wild.

Either Obama is totally clueless about US history, or, more likely, he’s convinced the voters are.  I’m gonna guess he’s more right than wrong on that.  But, substitute “Al Qaeda” for “Khmer Rouge” and you’ve got the exact same circumstances in Iraq that you had in southeastern Asia in 1975.

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Tags: al qaida, bay of pigs, cuban missile crisis, kennedy, khmer rouge, korea, nuclear bomb, obama, roosevelt, surrender, truman, vietnam, world war II

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