Left-wing activists like Cindy Sheehan consider America 'morally repugnant' and 'not worth dying for'. That's why this war is so much like Vietnam to them - their furious emotional response is the same. And of course, it's all about them. Everything is always all about them.

Middle-aged Marxists want to relive their adolescent days of imagined moral superiority. They want to replay the one victory in their otherwise disappointing lives - America's defeat in Vietnam.

Objectively, it's not like Vietnam at all. But in their crabbed, smug, resentful, narcissistic anti-American hearts, it's always Vietnam.

hahahahaha...

Except she didn't finish the analogy...they hold free elections, and split Vietnam into three parts: a rich northern segment which becomes the Democratic People's Republic of Vietnam, closely aligned with China; a wealthy southern section dominated by religious extremists who hate us; and a small dirt-poor section in the middle who so strongly oppose the national split (as well as their impoverishment) that they immediately launch a new Viet-Cong style invasion of both regions, initiating a civil war which very possibly spreads to neighboring nations).

Oh, and she totally ignored the ever present Viet-Cong in both North & South Vietnam, killing Americans by the hundreds, year in and your out...

Lose-lose, brought to you by the MOST INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY!

Zoomie,

The quote was from someone named Art Fougner, probably not a woman.

Your understanding of Vietnam borders on the illiterate, which is more than I can say about your understanding of Iraq.

The events you describe have not happened and seem unlikely. Maybe you should hold off a bit before you celebrate the defeat of your country.

Zoomie's only here to amp up the noise-to-signal ratio, i.e., to facilitate the opposite of communication. He's not even a propagandist, really, just a noisy ignorant troll in need of attention. There's probably some good reason why he's not banned, but it mystifies me.

Why? He's our little in vitro culture of the modern lefty/democrat bacteria.

There's not a day goes by he doesn't show that I'm right, when I say that the left has no vision, no plan for a better future, no core values, and nothing positive to offer the world. Only complaints and ankle-biting, appeasement and shameful disloyalty in time of war.

They are not even socialists anymore. They are nothing.

And besides, Andrea writes funny things when she gets irked.

"And besides, Andrea writes funny things when she gets irked."

Well, that's SOME consolation, anyway.

I aims to please.

It did occur to me - briefly - that Zoomie might be a John Weidner creation. He fits the conservative stereotype of moonbattery to an almost comic degree. His comments are upended barf bags of miseducation, misinformation, bad analysis, illogic and hysteria.

So I guess we should all just point and laugh. (Andrea excluded.)

Oh Lyle, if I could do that I'd call myself a wit and a blogger! But it would take far more talent than I have. I'm too set in my down-to-earth logical ways.

I have from time to time thought of inventing imaginary moonbats. I considered having Lucy Ramirez as a guest blogger! But my inspiration wasn't up to it....

Then maybe it's Treacher.

John writes: " He's our little in vitro culture of the modern lefty/democrat bacteria." only when he writes it the "in vitro" part is in italics. How do you get it to DO that? I tried blocking the text then hitting ctrl-i, but that just made my display go spastic.

You have to add a bit of HTML.

<em> your italic text here </em>

(I hope this displays right on everyone's browsers. You should see angle brackets surrounding the "em" and "/em")

Try it, it's fun. Be sure you have the closing tag to show where italics stop.

"You have to add a bit of HTML."

I have to what?