‘”What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi . You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battle of TET. You defeated us!
We knew it, and we thought you knew it.
But we were elated to notice your media was helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!”
GENERAL VO NGUYEN GIAP
via Stormbringer
Which makes the point perfectly–we in the West don’t lack the means to stop the thugs and barbarians. We lack the will, because that will has been systematically subverted, hollowed out, for half a century now. We are effectively disarmed and we’d better get used to it.
