Still In Saigon

Excepts from Andrew Cline's excellent American Spectator article "Still In Saigon":

Before the election, we heard incessantly how reckless President Bush was for stubbornly refusing to listen to his own generals about the situation in Iraq...the criticism helped bring the Democrats to power. And the first thing they did when they took charge was ignore the military command.

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It's not only the top commander who wants to stay in Iraq and finish the job. It's the troops...yet Democrats refuse to listen. Instead of taking military policy advice from service members whose relevant experience is in Iraq, they continue to turn to former service members whose relevant experience was in Vietnam.

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As Democrats are busy ignoring the entire military, from Central Command down to the privates, while drawing up their own plans for retreat, Rep. Charles Rangel is pushing to institute the draft...the United States had a draft from 1948 to 1973. We still went to Korea and (ahem) Vietnam.

Rangel also has no idea who is actually in our military. He claims it's the poor and unprivileged. (In other words, if you don't study in school so you'll have good career options, you'll get stuck in Iraq.)

But the military today is not the military of the Civil War or even Vietnam. It is more educated and affluent than ever before...the military is also not just a bunch of poor boys with no other options.

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Generals often make the mistake of fighting the last war. On Iraq, Democrats are doing exactly that. They just cannot get past Vietnam.

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