Criminally disingenuous

I’m watching Fox news Sunday’s Chris Wallace interviewing turncoat professional backbiter Jim Webb. When confronted with his 1985 quote “The lesson I took away from Vietnam was that you can’t debate a war while you’re fighting it”, Webb sputtered that what he’s doing today does not contrast with his current behavior; “When do we debate this? 20 years from now?” That’s a disingenuous question. Period.

Webb knows, and anyone being rational knows, that the Left’s current behavior is encouraging our enemies in the Middle East. Is it any wonder that two massive explosions rocked Baghdad just a week after “tens of thousands” marched in Washington last weekend?

Webb then went on to deny that he was comparing Viet Nam to the war in Iraq by comparing his experiences in Viet Nam to Iraq. In advocating a diplomatic solution to Iraq’s war, he claimed that China’s involvement in the Vietnam didn’t exclude them from being a solution to the end of our participation in Viet Nam.

Anyone who has spent more than a minute studing the Vietnam War knows that China and Vietnam were enemies. Vietnam was a client of the Soviet Union who was also an historical enemy of the Chinese. Nixon exploited the mistrust between the Soviet Union and China to limit Soviet support of the North Vietnamese.Need proof?? Who was it that, by military force, ended Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia in the early 1980s? Who was it that checked Vietnam’s expansionist policies in the Far East? It was China, in case you hadn’t guessed it by now. A better comparison would be our outreach to Jordan, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, than to Iran and Syria.

Webb went on to claim that Syria and Iran weren’t really allies. Which explains why Hezbollah, a client organization of Syria, was firing Iranian-made missiles into Israel last summer.

If this is an example of the tone of the debate we’re going to see over the next year-and-a-half, conservaives can rest assured that we’ll win the White House in 2008. Webb is being intentionally disingenuous because of the inconvenience of his own words.

Personally, I hope we see more of this;

But this illustrates what the President meant yesterday when he said this war is sapping our national soul; the extent to to which the Left has to lie to justify it’s anti-war position is costing us dearly.

The Left, and Webb is the posterchild of the extremist Left, has reached the point where they are really no longer useful in a thoughtful and genuine discussion of the issues we face in this new millenium. Their politics are rooted in failed policy and a distorted version of history. Their hearts are blackened with their culture of personality over service to the People.

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