What have the Kagans been Wrong about Now?

Oh Jebus, let's just start with the title of this joint wank-a-ration from Fred Kagan and Bill Kristol:

Al Qaeda is counting on sapping our will, and persuading America to choose to lose a war it could win.

And for all their complaining about how Iraq isn't Vietnam they drop this line is, unfitting for anyone who calls themselves a military historian...but perfect for a right-wing nutjob:

But real progress has already been made in the war against Al Qaeda in Iraq, and the terrorists know it.

That's why they're surging against our surge, and why they are attempting to convince us that we have lost when it is they who are losing. But surely our political leaders have enough sense, and enough courage, not to believe enemy propaganda. We believed it once before, in 1968, in circumstances far less dangerous and far less consequential for our well-being than the present. Let's not make that grave mistake again.

Yeah, and how about the complete fraud ("Gulf of Tonkin") that got us into that insane war too? You fuckers realize we continued to lose for another five fucking years in Vietnam after Tet too right?

This is all the "stab-in-the-back" bullshit that you knew was coming for about two years now!

Even I once wrote:

When a nation loses a war it can go one of three ways.

It can go the way of Germany, Italy or Japan after World War II, where the devistation is so broad, so sweeping, the crimes so massive and shameful that as a culture there is a spasm of shame so deep it completely changes the culture. But clearly, this would seem to require massive catastropher.

It can, at least, go for a period of time where it reflects upon the errors that were made and attempt to correct things to not make these mistakes again. This is arguably the direction that the United States took for a period of time after Vietnam, though sadly those lessons in the long run seem to be debatable.

Or it can go as France did after 1871, as Germany or Italy did after the First World War -- look for scapegoats.

Which way will we go?

Unless the war makers in the GOP are utterly defeated through constant effort, I fear the latter will be the ultimate course in our country.

Christ is reputed to have said, "blessed are the Peacemakers", but where in the course of human events has that actually been the case among societies?

The peacemakers are mocked, spat upon, imprisoned, or killed.

And here they come again...goddamn these lying sack of fucks!