Harry Reid Concedes

I've tried to lay off the war because I decided long ago that the military people should run it not a bunch of politicians and hacks who can't tell the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

It doesn't look good in Iraq because, just like Vietnam, we're going to fight the damn thing with one arm behind our back.

With that said, Harry Reid's comments about the war being lost are down right treasonous.

Imagine you are an Iraqi Shia. You desperately want to see a peaceful and democratic Iraq. You are willing to support the US but you also fear for your family if you show too much support. As the days wane, and you see the US wants out do you 1) outwardly show your support to the US and collaborate with US troops or 2) keep a low profile and not cause any stirs.

I was born in 1963, my earliest memories of Vietnam was seeing people hanging off of helicopters leaving the US embassy; desperately trying to leave the country. What do you think happened to all those US collaborators after we left? Let me just say that most of them are not around to tell us because I'm sure they were all executed.

Need a more recent example, try Somalia. After we pulled out of there, the country is in total chaos, run by territorial war lords. How much love do you think those war lords have for US collaborators?

The last thing we need to do in Iraq is to concede defeat and play right into the paper tiger painting Bin Laden has planted into the minds of middle easterners.

The thing that kills me most about the American public is that Bush warned us about this. He told us this would be a long struggle, that there would be setbacks along the way and that there would be battles we wouldn't know about but yet the one news cycle American public wants an end to this thing.

Let's pretend we pull out troops out tomorrow. What happens next? Do you think we will be more or less a target of more 9/11 type attacks? What happens to our friends in the Middle East? Do you think they going to be more or less supportive after the next 9/11 knowing how much we love a struggle? What happens to the Kurds, Sunnis and Shias in Iraq?

Finally, how do we ever justify having our troops anywhere in the world Korea, the Phillipines, Europe? How do we ever commit troops to places like Rwanda Somalia, Sudan, Kosovo where we have absolutely no national interest?

Now that the Soviet Union has crumbled the US is the sole remaining superpower. It is our job to be the policeman to the world. Why? Because if we don't do it, who will? the French?