On April 29 the people of Vietnam will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the hasty departure of the last American troops from Saigon (just hours before NVA tanks rolled into town). On May 8, 1945, the US celebrated V-E Day (Victory in Europe) with former European allies; it is now sixty years since WW-II ended (V-J Day was August 15, 1945). The end of WW-1, November 11, 1918 was outside of a perfect thirty year cycle; but the war itself was not.
Now, thirty years since the fall of Saigon we find ourselves in another dirty little war.
Dear Leader proclaimed
V-I Day (Victory in Iraq or "Mission Accomplished" Day) two years ago during that vainglorious strut on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier
USS Abraham Lincoln. That was when the real war in Iraq - the war
against the U.S. - really began to ramp up. The days leading up to the insurgency were our Blitzkrieg (
Shock and Awe) against a hunkered-down Iraq. After
Shock and Awe, a significant faction of Iraqis dusted themselves off, cleared the cobwebs from their ringing heads (and ears), and picked up their arms to try to kick our ass.
Dear Christian Leader rallied the enemy with his mocking taunt of "Bring 'em on!", while ignoring the admonishment of
Hosea 8: "Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind."
Meanwhile, the coffins of almost 1600 US service men and women have been spirited into Dover AFB under the cloak of figurative darkness. Life in this country, if the 2005 coronation of
Dear Leader is any indication, is a cabaret old chum!
With the on-going war in Iraq, the thirty year war cycle continues. Will that nexus between the ends of WW-2 and Vietnam manifest itself this year? My money is on
Dear Leader George II breaking the thirty year cycle, big time. Peace is not what he wants. Nor is victory.