Newshoggers Archive: George Will Knows Vietnamization When He Sees It.

Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.

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Monday, August 31, 2009

George Will Knows Vietnamization When He Sees It.

Commentary By Ron Beasley

As Dave reported below General McChrystal thinks we need a knew plan for Afghanistan. Well conservative George Will has been around long enough to recognize Vietnamzation when he sees it and he's been around long enough to remember how it worked out the first time.

George Will calls for pull-out

George F. Will, the elite conservative commentator, will call in his next column for U.S. ground troops to leave Afghanistan, according to publishing sources.
�[F]orces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent special forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters,� Will writes in the column, scheduled for publication later this week.

As support declines among the American people and Democratic politicians the defection of a respected conservative will through another wrench into the plans of the hawks. George Will - RINO surrender monkey?

Update

Here is the Will Column

And of course the winger hawks are in full attack mode.

Kristol

NRO

Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Monday, August 31, 2009

George Will Knows Vietnamization When He Sees It.

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