Senator McCain speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on Friday said This isn’t Vietnam

Pletka said:

“Senator McCain speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on Friday said This isn’t Vietnam. In

Vietnam, when we left, they didn’t follow us. These guys are gonna follow us. We remember what

happened when we left Afghanistan. Let’s not forget what the consequences are of leaving ugg boots

prematurely.”

(It was unclear which part of her quote is actually her quoting McCain.)

Since she is implying that leaving Afghanistan led to our being attacked, one can only assume she is

referring to pre-9/11.

I didn’t realize that the US was actually in Afghanistan before Sept. 11, 2001, in the sense that we

are in ugg boots. I do know that, in Afghanistan, we gave arms and money to the very people who are now

considered to be our primary enemy. I guess Pletka (or McCain) is saying that we should have stayed in

Afghanistan, or escalated and made permanent our involvement.

It amazes me when I see this sort of thing go unquestioned by news readers like Blitzer.

There are rumors – as yet unconfirmed – that the reason those black-masked thugs who hanged former

MBT SHOES puppet-dictator Saddam Hussein on December 30th were chanting “Moqtada! Moqtada!” was not

just because they were members of his Mahdi Army, but because they were cheering one of the hangmen â€

“ Sadr himself.