Old Men With Old Ideas

It was a Democrat-controlled Congress that decided to sink free South Vietnam, by cutting off its supplies ,even of rifle ammunition after the peace treaty signed by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho in 1973. It was Congress that ordered all U.S. bombing halted -- air strikes that could have made mincemeat of the regular North Vietnamese army, marching openly along the South’s main highways in 1974. The U.S. never lost the war militarily, and could easily have won it without self-imposed restraints. But the enemy was more ruthless, and the allied will to fight evaporated.
Now a 34 year veteran of Congress as a Democrat, and a past Secretary of State under President Bush,Sr. as co-chair of a Commission on Iraq appointed by Congress. Have together come up with another "cut and run" report on the Iraq war.
Although their report makes no specific recommendations for action other than the failed bromide of Diplomacy. It could have been written by the cadre of Pelosi, Schumer, Kennedy,and Clinton.
The foreign press, no friend of the U.S. and especially full of animus for President Bush use such phrases about the report as: "the report is a major humiliation for Bush", forces Him to admit a devastating defeat."
Hamilton was also co-chair of the "mish-mash" 9/11 report, and James A. Baker III can be remembered for his diplomatic handling of the crisis in Lebanon during the Presidents' fathers administration. His solution was to withdraw our troops and hand over Lebanon to Assads' Syria. We all know how successful that turned out.
The Iraq Committee was stacked from the beginning with pre-9/11 foreign policy consensus people. Diplomacy was all they knew and believed in.
Diplomacy has done nothing for the U.S. in the North Korean situation. Did little for defusing the Communist Russia threat until President Reagan started"Star Wars" saber rattling! And it did wonders for Europe when Neville Chamberlain used diplomacy with Hitler in 1936.
It appears that history is about to repeat itself. Once again we have tried to fight a war with a military with one hand tied behind it's collective back due to political interference.
It took five years before the New York Times and Washington Post took up their collective pens against the war in Vietnam. In the Iraq war they were against the effort from day one, ably abetted by the leftist politicians and academics. The tragic end will be a cut and run policy and the consequences will be bloody for the poor dumb Iraqis' who believed in our cause.
What would have happened if in the years 1774 to 1781 when the Continental Congress' was struggling to put together this new countries government, they were given a mandate to finish their business in a year or we would bring in the French, German and British to straighten it out?