THE REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IRAQ AND VIETNAM

Be very clear what Ted Kennedy means when he shouts, “Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam!” The Chappaquidick Kid is really saying that he wants Iraq to be another Vietnam. He wants America to lose.

Liberals always want America to lose. That’s what makes them liberals. No matter who it is, Castro, the Sandinistas, the Viet Cong, any folks sufficiently anti-American, liberals are on their side. Ann Coulter wrote a whole book about it, Treason.

As every objective commentator and historian has noted, America won the Vietnam War militarily but lost it politically. Perhaps the most famous example is the Tet Offensive of 1968, which was an incredible military defeat for North Vietnam — yet spun by liberal journalists like Walter Cronkite of CBS into a defeat for the US. The pathologically biased liberal reporting and televising of the Vietnam War turned so much public opinion against the war that the political will to win was lost.

The liberal Alphabet Media is once again doing its best to snatch American defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq. This time, however, there is a very big difference:

In the intervening 30 years between the Vietnam and Iraq wars, the liberals have lost their media monopoly.

With Vietnam, you had three choices to watch the first “televised war” — CBS, NBC, ABC. When was the last time you bothered to watch any of them? I haven’t in years. There are just too many alternatives.

And not just on television, like Fox News. There’s talk radio, where guys like Liddy and Limbaugh and so many others provide a haven from liberal bias. There’s the Internet, with websites like NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, FrontPage — and To The Point. Now there’s the “Blogosphere” — the exploding world of web logs or “blogs.” Scores of millions of Americans learn and discuss their news from all of these, then pass it around and share it via email.

Possibly you will choose to share this very essay with a number of your email friends. One small act, like so many millions of others, that adds to the dilution of the liberal media monopoly.

Yes, the liberals still have their bastions of defeatist propaganda, the Grey Lady, the WaPo, the Counterfeit Network News, Rather-Brokaw-Jennings. But what they don’t have is an information monopoly that enables them to con the American people into losing a war.

That’s the real difference between Vietnam and Iraq, and is the reason why this time, we get to win.