America's Own Fifth Column

We have a “Fifth Column” here in America, and we have had one for many years. It is still alive and doing well under the guardianship of left-wing university faculties, the mainstream media, and the vast influence of the radical America-hating billionaire, George Soros. Here’s a view of that “Fifth Column” seen, not by right-wing ideologues, but through the eyes of a former enemy military leader.

The August 3, 1995 edition of the Wall Street Journal carried an interview with former North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, a member of the North Vietnamese general staff and the man who received the surrender of South Vietnam's President Duong Van Minh on April 30, 1975.

The interview was conducted by Stephen Young, a Minnesota human rights activist. It might do us good to remember this today. We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Viet Nam, and it appears we are about to do the same in Iraq.

Colonel Tin described the military and political events of the war from his vantage point in Hanoi. What he described was the step-by-step defeat of US forces, not on the battlefield, but in the White House, in the Halls of Congress, in the streets of America, and on our college and university campuses .

Col. Tin was asked, "How did Hanoi intend to defeat the Americans?" He responded, "By fighting a long war which would break their will. Ho Chi Minh said, 'We don't need to win military victories, we only need to hit them until they give up and get out.' "

Step One.

Col Tin was asked, "Was the American anti-war movement important to Hanoi's victory?" He responded, "It was essential to our strategy . Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9:00 AM to follow the growth of the American anti-war movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark...gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses."


Step Two.

Col. Tin was asked, "How could the Americans have won the war?" He responded, "Cut the Ho Chi Minh trail inside Laos. If Johnson had granted (General) Westmoreland's requests to enter Laos and block the Ho Chi Minh trail, Hanoi could not have won the war."

Step Three.

Col. Tin was asked, "What of American bombing of North Vietnam? " He responded, "If all the bombing had been concentrated at one time, it would have hurt our efforts. But the bombing was expanded in slow stages under Johnson and it didn't worry us."


Step Four.

Col. Tin was asked, "What about Westmoreland's strategy and tactics caused you concern?" He responded, "Our senior commander in the South, Gen. Nguyen Chi Thanh, knew that we were losing base areas, control of the rural population, and that his main forces were being pushed out to the borders of South Vietnam. Johnson had rejected Westmoreland's request for 200,000 more troops (and) we realized that America had made its maximum military commitment to the war. "

Step Five.

Col. Tin continued, " Tet was designed to influence American public opinion. We would attack poorly defended parts of South Vietnam cities during a holiday.when few South Vietnamese troops would be on duty. Our losses were staggering.(General) Giap later told me that Tet had been a military defeat, though we had gained the planned political advantages when Johnson agreed to negotiate and did not run for reelection."

Step Six.

Col. Tin was asked, "What of Nixon?" He responded, "Well, when Nixon stepped down because of Watergate we knew we would win. (Prime Minister) Pham Van Dong said of Gerald Ford. 'He's the weakest president in US history; the people didn't elect him. Even if you gave him candy he doesn't dare intervene in Vietnam again.' "

Now we have virtually the same “Fifth Column” determined to force us to withdraw our troops which are engaged in a life-or-death struggle with the Islamo-Fascists. They want to force us into another humiliating defeat at the hands of barbarians who want us all dead. And the public
seems to be ready to hand it to them.

THE ELECTORATE

It is simply flabbergasting to me how our electorate can be so seemingly dim-witted at times. I remember a time when we were so appalled at the cover-up of a botched low-level burglary that we turned out a sitting president who had helped bring us a wonderful period of peace and prosperity. The economy was booming. North Viet Nam had signed a peace treaty promising to not interfere militarily in South Viet Nam.

The mainstream media and the Leftist Democrats wasted no time in dismembering and destroying the Nixon Administration and pounding the Republicans in congress who lost 48 seats in the House and 5 Senate seats. They were replaced by the so-called "Watergate Babies" whose first act was to cut off all aid to South Viet Nam. Our troops were ordered out of the country in full retreat. North Viet Nam had prevailed throughout Indo China. Thousands of valiant American troops who had shed their blood for this country were found to have done so in vain.

Our friends in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia were massacred in the killing fields by the millions. Millions more, called Boat People by the press, frantically tried to escape by sea. The American military were scorned as "baby killers." They were spat upon when they returned to this country. Our nation's honor was forever stained by the actions of a spoiled and brainless crowd of punks who, for a time, virtually took over the country. Reading the mood of the country to be one that would last forever, the opportunistic John Kerry threw away his questionable medals and ripped his shipmates and fellow veterans as "reminiscent of Genghis Khan."

We voted in the most shameful president in memory in the person of Jimmie Carter who proceeded to lead us into economic shambles and more international disgrace. In case you don't remember, inflation went to 12% with 11% unemployment and we faced vast deficits. When our diplomats were held for months with impunity by a bunch of religious zealots, our nation became the laughingstock of the world. Fortunately we recovered our senses just in time to bring in Ronald Reagan and restore some sanity to our government. When asked what his "strategy" was for the Cold War, Reagan replied "We win. They lose."

Obviously, we didn't learn our lesson. A few years later we discarded a genuine war hero who had led us to the final victory in the Cold War as the Berlin Wall tumbled, the "Evil Empire" crumbled and The United States regained a measure of the respect it had once earned as fitting leader of the free world. We replaced him with a pot smoking, womanizing draft dodger who reduced this proud nation to a laughingstock again.

Now the mainstream media bleats that George W. Bush is "the worst president of modern times." How short the memory! After all, what has this president accomplished? He has presided over the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan when all the doomsayers declared it "an impossible quagmire." He led the country in a victory over the once powerful and feared Iraqi army, deposed one of history's most despicable tyrants and brought him to justice. Both countries have had free democratic elections in which the people braved threats of death to vote.

He has led us into an economy which is the envy of the world with fantastic productivity, a heady standard of living, and rock bottom unemployment. He has kept the mainland safe from further attacks and has badly crippled al Qaeda. He has assembled a coalition to confront North Korea on her nuclear program and is making progress on quelling the foreign insurgency in Iraq.

Now the mainstream media, egged on by the far left wingers call for a repudiation of the party who has presided over these successes. There is now great danger that we are on the verge of bringing in successors to "the Watergate Babies" who will cut troop funding and quit the field of battle against the Islamic Fascists. Once again we are preparing to abandon those who put their trust in us against the forces of evil.

If the path of our nation is to be directed by those who believe that the war is lost and announce this to the world even while our troops are engaged in battle with the enemy, can another bloodbath of our friends and allies which would put another stain on our country's honor be far behind.

While the wolves of Islamic Fascism are at our throats, these worthies concern themselves with raising the minimum wage, cutting interest on student loans, questions of who knew what and when about naughty notes sent to Congressional Pages, and killing unborn babies to harvest their stem cells. For the love of this country can we not put aside some of these arguments until the relentless enemy who wants us all dead is vanquished and this mortal danger to our nation destroyed?