Late in the Day

As darkness begins to fall on Neoconia, there's a whole lot of barking, braying, gnashing of teeth, with the occasional pitiful yelp trying to masquerade as a growl (link is to the E&P story that y'all probably saw first at Eschaton).

But, Tbogg points out that the snarling cur who spat out the American Legion's new "position" is a little long--and weak--in the tooth:

That would be this Thomas Cadmus:

Thomas P. Cadmus of Ypsilanti, Mich. was elected National Commander of the 2.7 million-member American Legion on Sept. 2, 2004 in Nashville, Tenn. during the 86th National Convention of the nation's largest veterans organization.

Cadmus is a United States Army veteran where he served as an Armored Reconnaissance Specialist from 1965 to 1967. He left the Army as a Specialist 5th (E-5). During his time in the Army he was stationed at Fort Knox, Ky. and Munich, Germany.

Soooo...any lessons he learned about Vietnam during his two years of service he obviously learned from afar. Or, to put it another way:

Jane Fonda spent more time in Vietnam than Thomas Cadmus did.

Billmon proved, using the AL's own statements, that the organization--or at least the organization's leadership--is comprised of mere partisan hacks.

Partisan hacks, who, if they are to be believed, were also a bunch of wimps...wimps who got so demoralized by Jane Fonda that they ended up losing Vietnam.

Now the hacks--and their fellow denizens of Neoconia--want to blame the virtually non-existent anti-war movement for their failure in Mesopotamia. Hence, Casmus's yelp. No doubt recycled lies about soldiers getting spat on will froth to the surface, as they desperately look to pin blame on anyone--except for the nitwits who got us into the mess. Watch as the reason for going to war gets ever more garbled--already, here in the Gret Stet, rational discussion of the casus belli is virtually impossible--it's all "freedom" all the time, whatever that's supposed to mean--with a little residual flypaper theory thrown on top. And, when that doesn't work, they try to find someone they can hate.

Well, maybe it makes them feel better--but it can't undo what THEY'VE done. It's THEIR war, and it's THEIR loss, regardless of how much howling they engage in. And I'm not going to let them forget it.