Biden's Vietnam

 -- By Tom Phillips

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Alea jacta est -- the die is cast.  Never has an empire cast its die so hesitantly, half-heartedly, vaguely or weakly.  But when President Biden agreed to grant NATO membership to Ukraine -- with no timetable or conditions attached -- he committed the western alliance to a mission impossible: a fight to the finish against the one country in the world that is built to fight forever. 

Say It Ain't So, Joe.

 

Bomblets.   Photo: Sky News 

Dear Joe ---- 

Sorry I haven't replied to your fund-raising letters.  It's true, I gave to your campaign in 2020.  But I'm afraid I can't do it again, as long as you are "defending your decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine."  As you know, these bombs will kill and maim both soldiers and and civilians, including little children -- Ukrainian children.  And they will keep killing for years after they explode and scatter "tiny, deadly bomblets" across the countryside.  

You and I are old enough to remember Vietnam, where we killed and maimed children, and destroyed villages in order to save them.  The real enemy wasn't the Vietnamese, it was the Russians and the Chinese.  We fought them all over the world -- Korea, Africa, South America, South Asia -- we set brothers against brothers, sisters and against sisters, cousins against cousins.  And between us we killed and mained enough children to give us a horror show in Hell that will last a thousand years.  

We have no more business fighting the Russians in Ukraine than we did in Vietnam.  Neither place has any strategic value to the United States.  If you think killing and maiming little children in Ukraine will help us gain influence and power in the world, you haven't learned a thing.  

Say it ain't so, Joe.