Reply #10: We're gonna have to slink out of there, like we did Viet Nam [View All]

[Jacobin]

Gene McCarthy tried the direct approach and got trounced for his efforts.

Then the war was "vietnamized" (see: Iraqi National Guard Defending Themselves tm), we withdrew partially and then our remaining troops were run out on a rail.

However, until we get to that point, needless tens of thousands will be required to die and be maimed, and a draft will need to be re-instated, and college kids will have to start burning down recruiting centers, and the moral majority will have to get all outraged, and President Whoever It Is in 2015 will finally slink out of there, pulling the remaining troops off of rooftops in overloaded helicopters.

This country never fucking learns.