Remember Afghanistan?
This is from a post at Blue Girl, Red State.
Remember Afghanistan?
Sure you do – the country in which bin Laden and his warren of terrorists found safe haven from which to plot the terror attacks of September 11. Think hard. It’ll come back to you.
And when it does, consider that we should be applying the lessons of Vietnam to the situation there. One lesson in specific…As the end drew nigh and helicopters on the roof of the embassy became inevitable, an exchange took place between two battle-hardened Colonels, Harry Summers from the United States Army, and Colonel Tu from North Vietnam. Stinging from the defeat, Summers reportedly said “You never beat us on the battlefield.” To which Tu replied, “That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.”
That is the lesson that we should be heeding in Afghanistan.
