8000 Years

 
Discerning Texan has a short, but must-read post:

I heard a really good question raised last week and it has been weighing heavily on me. The question is: When in the history of mankind have warriors (or "freedom fighters" if you are a Sean Penn fan...) systematically murdered their own people in order to try and win a war? Ever. Did the Nazi's do it? The Romans? Attila the Hun? The Kamikaze Japanese? Think about it: History had to wait at least 8000 years for mankind to come to the point where people murdered their own women and children--not as collateral damage, but rather as an example of how barbaric or inhuman they can continue to be if we try to impose...PEACE. A: The three dynamics which had to be in place were: a cowardly Democrat Congress had to be in power, a seditious American press had to be fanning the flames for a Republican President under unceasing attack, and an American public that will believe anything that any dishonest but articulate person on a blue screen tells them. After the Democrats forced us from Vietnam, between 2-4 million souls were exterminated in the Vietnamese and Cambodian killing fields--by Communist regimes that the left intelligensia in the US had come to coddle. How many will die in the killing fields of Iraq if we abandon them to the monsters who devour their own on our TV screens every day? The Democrats can talk about Darfur and Rwanda all day -- but they ain't seen nothing yet. And they won't be able to blame this one on Bush.

Man, I just quoted the whole post. Sorry about that, but it's too good to excerpt. Go ye therefore hence and suckle at the Texan Teat of Wisdom.