"It's deja vu all over again"

 

There was Vietnam, now there's Iraq, and as Yogi Berra so famously said, " It's deja vu all over again".

 

As before, and now again are the cowardly politicians wringing their hands and plaintively crying that if we do the right thing we will be perceived as weak and irresolute to enemies and friends alike.

 

 

It must be said that it takes strength to do the right thing, and only the weak press on in a fool's errand that will only bring grief, destruction and death.

 

There's a line in a song by Pete Seeger that was popular during the Vietnam era:  "Oh when will they ever learn?"

 

When indeed.