America’s Victories
By Larry Schweikart
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America’s armed services are under attack. From college campuses to the floor of the Senate, the Iraq war is portrayed as a quagmire, the Army is described as “broken,” and our men and women in uniform are maligned as torturers. Hollywood keeps producing anti-war films, and the media celebrates liberal anti-military activists such as Cindy Sheehan.
These critics fail to understand the real nature of the American military. By seeing everything through the distorted lens of Vietnam ' a war shrouded in harmful myths 'they have lost sight of our country’s real military record, and the factors that have enabled us to win with remarkable consistency, in situations even more dire than Iraq.