Let's Pause A Moment...

...and consider the fact that Jonah "Doughy Pantload" Goldberg is respected enough to have a weekly column in the LAT. Today Jonah excoriates the Dems for not having a plan for Iraq. Nothing new there. And Jonah heaps praise upon George for having a plan: Victory. (Never mind that that isn't a plan.)

In his response to the SOTU, Jim Webb talked about how Eisenhower ended the Korean War (Jonah mentions that the war hasn't technically ended - true enough) and, aside from more Dem-bashing, Jonah goes on the speculate that leaving Iraq will turn that country into another North Korea, nukes and all. How that follows I'll never know.

But here's the point:

Perhaps such applause is mere grace on the cheap. Democrats know they can count on their beloved United Nations to prevent serious intervention to protect the losing side in Sudan's civil war. Or maybe the Democrats really want action in Darfur, even though that would put us smack dab in the middle of a civil war, which Jack Murtha and other Iraq opponents invoke as a classic blunder the way Vizzini referred to land wars in Southeast Asia in "The Princess Bride."

While I'm not averse to pop culture references, and "The Princess Bride" is undoubtedly a great movie, a Serious Columnist writing for a Serious Newspaper would see fit to point out that "never get involved in a land war in Asia" was actually the advice the Gen. Douglas Macarthur gave to JFK concerning Vietnam. Maybe Jonah does know that but understood bringing Vietnam into the mix would destroy his argument.

Then again, maybe Jonah isn't all that bright.

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Comments

[¡El Gato Negro!]

"never get involved in a land war in Asia" was actually the advice the Gen. Douglas Macarthur gave to JFK concerning Vietnam.

Well, to be fair, the JFK/ MacArthur exchange was never part of a witty romantic comedy so how could he have known about eet?

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