By: Cliff Kincaid
“As the civilian toll in Iran mounts, some officials point to the impact of Pete Hegseth’s hostility to battlefield restraint.” This is the summary of an article in the Atlantic by somebody named Missy Ryan. In other words, don’t fight to win and don’t blame the Iranian regime for bringing Iran and the world to this point.
What we are seeing is the return of the hate-America media that ushered in a communist victory in Vietnam. In this case, it’s also hate-Trump media. It’s a double-whammy designed to demoralize the war effort, just like Vietnam.
They realize America is winning, and they don’t like it.
Missy Ryan’s education consists of Georgetown University, BA in English; Harvard University, master’s in public policy. This is typical.
Our book, All The Dupes Fit To Print: Journalists Who Have Served As Tools Of Communist Propaganda, explains how the American media echoed communist propaganda in such conflicts as the Vietnam War.
A difference this time around was captured by an A.F. Branco cartoon showing a man in a suit wearing an “America’s Enemies” button and carrying a toolbox that includes Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and the Democratic Party.
Broadcaster Jerry Kenney says he heard Marc Thiessen say on Fox … “I have never seen a war [Iran] where so many people were rooting for failure in my life.”
Kenney commented, “He clearly doesn’t recall Vietnam. I will cut him some slack because he was about 8 yrs old when the Vietnam War ended. His limited perspective is a major problem that we as a country have. The country needs to be reminded how the left was actively working for our failure in Vietnam and how they have always been against America.”
For the umpteenth time, the truth is that Vietnam would be free today except for a Democratic-controlled Congress, egged on by characters like Walter Cronkite of CBS News. The late CBS Evening News anchorman was named in an FBI document from 1986 as being targeted in a Soviet “active measures” campaign against President Reagan’s anti-communist foreign policy. He helped turn the public against a U.S. victory in Vietnam.
Regarding Congress, Lewis Fanning’s excellent book, Betrayal in Vietnam, notes that “…it was not the Hanoi communists who won the war, but rather the American Congress that lost it.” Fanning wrote, “It was not until after the United States elections in the fall of 1974 that North Vietnamese field commanders received the go-ahead in their plans to conquer South Vietnam. As a result of the Watergate scandals, the Democrats had gained forty-three seats in the House. This liberal victory meant that in the 94th Congress, there would be 291 Democrats and only 144 Republicans. In the Senate, the Democrats had gained three seats, and the lineup was now 61 Democrats to 39 Republicans. This leftward shift of both congressional chambers played a significant role in the North Vietnamese decision to unleash its army.”
Going through the provisions of various bills offered by Democrats in Congress, he presents the case that “A Democratic caucus of the Congress of the United States, aided and abetted by a few liberal Republicans, cast the South Vietnamese people into Communist slavery.”
That left-wing caucus, Members of Congress for Peace through Law, decided that American military involvement would end, and dramatically reduced aid to the government of South Vietnam. Republican President Gerald Ford, who took power after Richard Nixon’s resignation, understood that Congress would not provide enough assistance to keep the country free of communism.
Hundreds of thousands of “boat people” tried to escape the Hanoi communists, who took power in Saigon, while the communist Khmer Rouge took power in neighboring Cambodia, eliminating almost two million people.
In the Middle East, if Iran somehow wins, the result would be far worse – millions could die. But Iran can’t and won’t win – unless and until the Democrats repeat their behavior during Vietnam and undermine our warfighters.
We are witnessing their behavior in the criticism of Trump’s long-overdue war on Iran, and the worst may be yet to come, as reports suggest the White House may face Democratic Party opposition to a request for $50 billion in supplemental defense funding.
The war supplemental is designed to help fund the U.S. military and replenish weapons stockpiles.
The Soros-funded Center for American Progress has issued a “Memo on Supplemental Appropriation for Iran War,” urging Democrats to assume “the upper hand both morally and politically in opposing the war in Iran.”
These people want the United States to lose. The author of the memo, Bobby Kogan, served in the Biden-Harris White House. No surprise there.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. usasurvival.org
