The First Battle

Longtime contributor Fingers sends this piece from the Standard. Iraq isn't Vietnam. It's Guadalcanal.

Iraq isn't Vietnam, it's Guadalcanal--one campaign of many in a global war to defeat the terrorists and their sponsors. Like the United States in the Pacific in 1943, we are in a war of national survival that will be long, hard, and fraught with casualties. We lost the first battle of that war on September 11, 2001, and we cannot now afford to walk away from the critical battle we are fighting in Iraq any more than we could afford to walk away from Guadalcanal. For the security of America, we have no recourse but to win.

The author is a former counterterrorism planner who is currently serving in Iraq.

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Posted by Mitch at September 29, 2004 03:16 PM | TrackBack