Succeed or quit?

Iraq is America’s second Vietnam. Only an utterly, incomprehensibly stupid and irreparably brain damaged idiot could possibly apply the following ‘lesson’ from the Vietnam war to the Iraq war: “We’ll succeed unless we quit”. So he’ll “stay the course” - of failure.

So does brain-damaged George W. really thinks the U.S. could have won the Vietnam war by not quitting? Idiocy truly knows no bounds.

Like there is the law of gravity (Newton) and the law of relativity (Einstein), there is the law of imperialism (Mao).

“Make trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again … until their doom – that is the logic of the imperialists and all reactionaries the world over in dealing with the people’s cause and they will never go against this logic. This is a Marxist law. […] Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again … until their victory; that is the logic of the people, and they too will never go against this logic. This is another Marxist law.” (Quotations from Chairman Mao, Chapter 5: War and Peace, quotation 96).

In Iraq, unlike Vietnam, defeat is not an option for the United States, Bush rambles on. As if it was an option before it was forced on the Americans by the Vietnamese people? As sure as it surely will be in the future by the Iraqi people.

Lyndon Johnson ousted his defense secretary, so did Bush. Johnson conducted a rethinking of strategy, so is Bush. Of course there are also differences between the U.S. occupations of Vietnam and Iraq. But that will not prevent the Iraqi people – Sunni’s, Shia’s and Kurds – from driving out the occupiers and ultimately claiming final victory. Defeat will be the only option left to the U.S.

Even sitting together with the Vietnamese president under a giant bust of Chairman Ho Chi-minh, Bush cannot go against the logic of imperialism.

The people fighting the occupation will never quit and they will always succeed in the end.