Recently, we were "treated" to a nice thread about how the dreaded liberals seem to want to apologize for all sorts of nasty business.

One of my good buds finished up by telling me that oh yes, we need to apologize for Vietnam over and over and over.

I'm not interested in any GD apologies, I'm interested in people GETTING IT.

The Swift Boaters are likely going to go to their grave believing that if only we'd had the will and shoveled more blood and treasure into Vietnam, we'd have left with a glorious victory in hand and had ticker tape parades complete with pretty French girls planting kisses back home.

Likewise, a certain hawk contingent is going to blame whoever puts a stop to our current debacle freely hemmoraging blood and treasure, this debacle in service of some belief that we are going to persuade people with centuries of ingrained suspicion of furriners into letting us be their overlords and teaching them how civilized society works -- this after we displayed the dark underbelly of American depravity and arrogance at Abu Gharib.

Vietnam was utterly lost and this thing is utterly lost.

If a man comes up behind me and beats me with a baseball bat, I'm not interested in any GDed apology, I'm interested that he stop, NOW, and then pay up on the civil suit I'm going to win against him. If by some mirable, a bright burst of contrition flew into him, I'd listen to an apology for his sake, but it's low on my list of concerns, thank you so much just the same.

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