Useful Idiots

Our gutless, cut-and-run "leaders" in Congress are (hopefully) unwittingly abetting our terrorists enemies. It doesn't take a PhD in history to learn that in Vietnam the Communists were only successful to the extent they were able to erode support for the war back in the U.S. They were helped enormously in this task by Walter Cronkite and the rest of the media.

The terrorists in Iraq know this. They can't come close to matching up with our soldiers on the battlefield, but they are hopeful that this generation's useful idiots (the MSM and Congress) can erode support to the point where we'll pull out of Iraq and they'll win by forfeit. Congressional calls for a withdrawl timetable can only help the terrorists. They'll know all they have to do is hold on till that date and they win.

For more, check out this editorial from today's WSJ in Opinion Journal.com. An excerpt:
"There are many lessons of the Vietnam War, but two of the biggest are these: Don't fight wars you don't intend to win, and while American troops can't be defeated, American politicians can be. Like General Giap, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his fellow terrorists understand the second lesson very well, and so his strategy has always been not to capture Baghdad but to inflict casualties in a way that breaks the will of American elites. He'll only be encouraged by this week's show of Beltway duck and cover."