Huntsman’s Disqualifying Distortion About Vietnam; The candidate's remark at the last GOP debate refutes his reputation as a foreign policy maven.

PJ Media  "Perhaps as stunning as the Huntsman remark was the way CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and seven Republican candidates let it stand unchallenged, as if it were unassailable common knowledge. They should all know better, and speak up."
"As H.R. McMaster wrote in his 1997 book Dereliction of Duty, President Lyndon Johnson’s leadership of the war effort was characterized by marginalizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lying to Congress about troop levels, and pursuing Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s tactic of “graduated pressure,” which treated military force as a communication tool rather than a way to achieve victory."....
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"Huntsman’s ignorance, or distortion, of history, should disqualify him from consideration for the Republican nomination. His failure to gain traction after months of campaigning is a tribute to the good sense of the American people. Perhaps the triviality of his continued presence in the field explains why the moderator and the other candidates allowed his remark to pass without a probing question, or a much-deserved rebuke.

"But if Republicans hope to reverse the decades-long leftist narrative about this, and so many other topics, they can no longer allow such moments to pass.
"When we draw such erroneous lessons from history, we don’t merely diminish the service of fallen heroes, we put at greater risk those who wear the uniform today, and those whom they protect."
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NO! WE CAN'T!

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Obama 101; Few presidents have dashed so many illusions as Obama.

Victor Davis Hanson   "Israel, Britain, and Eastern Europe are not closer allies now than they were in 2008. Iran is still Iran — and may be even a more dangerous adversary after the failed Obama outreach. Putin’s Russia, despite “reset” (a word we no longer much hear), is still Putin’s Russia. China still despises the U.S., and feels in 2011 that it is in a far better position to act on its contempt than it was in 2009. North Korea never got the “hope and change” message. Europe is collapsing, reminding the world where the United States is headed if it does not change course. Outreach didn’t seem to do much for the Castro brothers, Hugo Chávez, or Daniel Ortega. We are helping Mexico to sue our own states, but that does not seem to persuade its leaders to keep their citizens home. Muslim Pakistan went from a duplicitous ally to a veritable enemy. The more we bragged about Turkey, the more we could feel it holds us in contempt. We hope that the Libyan rebels and the Cairo protesters are headed toward democracy, but we privately admit that they seem to have no more interest in establishing it than we have in promoting it. In other words, Professor Obama reminds future presidents that the world will transcend their rhetoric, their pretensions, and their heritage. Other nations always calibrate their relations with the United States either by their own perceived self-interest, or by centuries-old American values and power, or both."

The Cain Scrutiny

  My plan for Herman Cain to become president is this: He should resign the Republican Party and register as a Democrat, then run as a primary challenger to President Obama.
  His alleged conduct would no longer be an issue but a resume enhancement and eyes of women Democrats would shine with lust as Herman Cain walked into any venue.  Anyone questioning Cain would be called a pervert and all lawyers opposing him would be called "out of control" or "sexual deviants" by celebrity "strategists" such as James Carville (who would refer to the women accusers as "trailer trash").
  Democrats in Congress would never say, "it's not the truth of the charges but the seriousness of them that makes us pursue Mr. Cain". The press (ABC, CBS and any media outlet with the letters "NBC" in their name) would  produce all the boyfriends, lovers and every psychiatric report on these ladies while some men's magazine would do a photo spread on one of them.
  Cain would be forgiven every allegation, being called the "greatest president who ever sought office"and the CBC would dismiss it all as racism; Tavis Smiley and Maxine Waters would be on every TV set.
  His women accusers would be told by Cain to "put some ice on that" and then disappear from the public spotlight while Democrat women's groups would act as if not one thing ever happened. Gloria Allred would vanish until the next Republican scandal. Best of all for Cain every foreign policy misstatement he ever made would be ignored by the press while they turned on Republican candidates instead of him.
  Before publishing the above statement, it was scrutinized for poor logic and ridiculous reasoning. Finding none of that, I hit the "publish" button.
The Tunnel Dweller.

The ‘Cain Scrutiny’ Leads to a ‘Reassessment’  "Anyone watching Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s Wednesday morning address in the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester would have come away believing that the last thing on his mind is dropping out of the 2012 race.
"Alas, such is not the case. In both the post-speech press scrum (second video at link) and a two-segment interview with Fox News’s Neil Cavuto Wednesday afternoon, Cain made it very clear that a “reassessment” is indeed in progress, and that it will take at least several days to complete it."

Other, more important reasons to be wary of Cain  "He thought the Taliban was fighting for control of Libya. He didn’t know about the wet foot-dry foot policy on Cuban refugees. He didn’t understand the “right of return” and he said he would release all the terrorists in Gitmo for one captured American. He can’t give a straight, coherent answer on whether he’s pro-life or not. He said America needs a “leader, not a reader,” whatever that means. And though he says as president he would rely on the knowledge of others to make decisions, on his campaign he retains staff who blunder about contradicting themselves and who may have launched his campaign with illegal money."

Some Questions about the Cain Allegations  "Unlike some people, who think all the allegations against Herman Cain can be dismissed by referring to a “liberal media conspiracy,” I prefer to approach the issue more scrupulously. I was once enthusiastic about Cain but now find my support waning for the following reasons, none of which have to do with a “conspiracy” against him:"

  Once You Go Conservative Black, You Better Watch Your Back  "The liberal media is an old story, but it's still a big story when it comes to creating the impression of scandal out of thin air.
"Most people say, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." I say, "Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together." "
So, even if all allegations are proven false, there are still those nagging foreign policy statements that rank down with Ron Paul saying we should be nice to the Iranians so they will be nice to us. Cain's ignorance is regrettable, Paul's is insidious.
Below are the cartoonist's takes; do you see a theme here?

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More here, here, here, here. And these are from a conservative site; we haven't even touched the liberal ones because this would all be expected there. The only difference would be they would attack all Republicans in each cartoon.