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3 Responses to "Media Can’t Let Go Of Vietnam Comparisons"

PCD says:

September 22, 2005 at 8:12 am

Gen. Honore is more correct and right on than he thinks when he said, “You’re stuck on stupid, reporter!”
Brian says:

September 23, 2005 at 1:39 am

It is a common practice of the right wing, especially Rush Limbaugh, to blame the media when things go wrong, instead of the people responsible. The media was not responsible for the United States losing in Vietnam. The United States lost in Vietnam because the war was poorly planned and carried out by our leadership and things are going poorly in Iraq for the same reasons. The Bush Administration has made one mistake after another in planning and carrying out the war against Iraq.

It is not just the media who reported things were going badly in Vietnam. Col. David Hackworth, the most decorated American soldier ever, and also someone who spent a lot of time in Vietnam said in 1971 that Vietnam “is a bad war … it can’t be won. We need to get out.”. He also predicted Saigon would fall to North Vietnam within four years.

Col David Hackworth was also very critical of the way the war in Iraq was planned and carried out. Early in the war, him and other retired military leaders were saying that the administration did not send enough troops to quell Iraqi resistance. This is what he had to say about Donald Rumsfeld:

“He went in light, on the cheap, he has misunderstood the whole war, he should go … Rumsfeld is an arrogant a**hole. That’s a quote, by the way.”

Since the start of the war, President Bush and his administration have made one mistake after another. If the United States is unsuccessful in Iraq, it will be because of an incompetent president and his administration, not the media.
Sister Toldjah says:

September 25, 2005 at 12:45 pm

“It is a common practice of the right wing, especially Rush Limbaugh, to blame the media when things go wrong, instead of the people responsible.”

That’s not true. The media’s influence is usually cited as a significant contributing factor.

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