Ponderings of a Scientist

To paraphase Georgie, ” The reason we lost in Vietnam is that we quit; the lesson to take from Vietnam is that we will succeed in Iraq as long as we don’t quit.”

Could he be any more wrong.  Most of us that weren’t even born during the Vietnam War, have known from the start of Iraq that it was “another Vietnam”  and we wouldn’t succeed, not because of quitting, but because we were yet again trying to take over a country and convert the value structure and government to model our own.  Nevermind the fact, that yet again, the government went into a war without truly understanding the culture of the country!  Stupid, stupid.

On a happier note, I look forward to Charles Rangel leading the House Ways and Means committee.  This guy is going to seriously straighten out our tax laws, and he’s kicking V.P Cheney out of the office that Cheney took from the former Republican Ways and Means Chair to boot!