Mark Souder: “years ago when George McGovern ran for president, our current President and National Security Adviser worked in his…”

“years ago when George McGovern ran for president, our current President and National Security Adviser worked in his campaign. Sandy Berger supposedly even coined the phrase ``come home America.'' Our boys of the Vietnam era have now grown up. It has gone from come home America to go everywhere America, to stay everywhere America. We do have the best military in the world. Nobody is disputing that. We are proud of them. But they can only do so much with poorly conceived political strategies. This is certainly no victory. After 11 weeks of bombing, we have less world stability than when we started. After 11 weeks of bombing, we have a settlement that we probably could have achieved at the beginning. If this is a victory, what would a defeat look like? We are not snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, we are trying to snatch future victories from the jaws of this defeat. Let me look at the specifics here. We probably have destabilized Montenegro, although hopefully we can get the pro-western government stabilized. We certainly have put Macedonia at risk, which was a country where all the factions had pulled together, watched their trade get devastated, and now potentially have changed the mix and the politics of Macedonia. We have set a precedent on autonomous semi-independent republics, and it is not clear whether Kosovo can actually stay under Serbian control. What does this mean for Palestine? What does this mean for the Kurds?”