WSJ: Democrats and the Killing Fields

from the Wall Street Journal an outstanding article:

Democrats and the Killing Fields

By ARTHUR HERMAN
May 1, 2008; Page A17

Most people have never heard of Operation Frequent Wind, which ended on April 30, 1975, 33 years ago. But every American has seen pictures of it: the Marine helicopters evacuating the last U.S. personnel from the embassy in Saigon, hours before communist tanks rolled into the city. Thousands of desperate Vietnamese gathered at the embassy gate and begged to be taken with them. Others committed suicide.

Those scenes are a chilling reminder of what happens when a great power decides to cut and run. Two of the three presidential candidates are proposing to do just that in Iraq. We need to remember what happened the last time we gave up on an unpopular foreign policy, not only in humanitarian terms but in terms of American power and prestige.

Actually, the U.S. had won the war in Vietnam on the battlefield, just as the surge has done today in Iraq. Over Easter 1972, South Vietnamese forces, backed by U.S. airpower, crushed the last communist offensive, killing nearly 100,000 North Vietnamese troops.

Go to the Journal site to read the rest. Should either of the two Democrat candidates win the election will they forget the lessons of Viet Nam and abandon the people of Iraq? Will they behave responsibly or choose cowardice? Will they choose to see the big picture like Roosevelt and some of the great Democrat leaders or to be a toothless pandering frenchocrat like Carter? The answer to these questions is important if we wish to halt the spread of barbarianism. Remember it has to be America no other country can do it without us.
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal for publishing this article.