In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
With the humiliated disaster in Afghanistan, let us look back on how another war was lost. William F. Buckley, Jr. and former South Vietnamese Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky discuss how the Vietnam War was lost.
Until next Friday.
Both wars were lost for the same reason: the enemy would not yield regardless of cost to themselves.
Over at Jim’s blog, “As the collapse began, but before the Officially Unofficial Press acknowledged that Kabul had fallen, I saw talking heads displaying awareness that this was a holy war, and awareness that you have to bring a gun to a gunfight and a faith to a holy war.”