Sacrificing the good of the country on the altar of elections.

       My contempt for the leadership of the Democrat party is that they are willing to sacrifice the good of the country, even peace in the world, in order to obtain political power.  The war in Vietnam is a case in point.

       I am not going to argue about whether the United States should have gotten involved in Vietnam.  That’s another issue. However, when President Nixon resigned in August of 1974, the war had been won.  Negotiations begun in 1968 had been brought to fruition. The bombing of military and industrial targets in North Vietnam succeeded in bringing the North Vietnamese to the table at the Paris Peace Talks. In order to prevent further aggression on the part of the North, it was agreed that America would continue to provide military hardware if and when the North attempted further aggression.

       It was over.  But the Democrat leadership refused to let the win stand. The landslide Democrat victory three months following Nixon’s resignation gave them the opening they needed, and they sold South Vietnam down the river. Democrat leaders who had demonstrated in opposition to Nixon’s tactics couldn’t afford having been proved wrong. They intentionally violated the Peace Accords, and millions of our South Vietnamese friends were slaughtered.

     The same thing happened in Iraq.  Democrats could not abide the fact that the war had been decisively won, so they abandon the entire Arabian Peninsula to the radical influences of ISIS and Al-Qaeda and begin indicting America for unrest in the Middle East.  Truth be known, members of radical Islam have participated in 548 jihads since Mohammed’s death in 632.    

     Take race relations.  America is the most diverse and charitable country the world has ever known, but in order to secure the votes of the minorities, Democratic leaders find it necessary to trap them into a state of dependency and stir up race hatred at every opportunity.  Yes, the United States does have the stain of slavery and Jim Crow on its historical canvas, but it’s the only country in the history of the world that was willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives in order to bring the institution to an end.