| Moved to Thursday for continued commentary. |
Once the ISIS force surrounded the embassy, we would face a similar situation to that of the French forces in Dien Bien Phu, a French-held fortress in Northwest Vietnam in 1954. French forces retreated into the fort when the Vietnamese communists engaged in a concerted offensive. No one could get out of the fort and the ring of defenses around it made reinforcement or evacuation from air or ground impossible. The Vietnamese leaders made a strategic decision to target Dien Bien Phu as the best avenue to accomplish a strategic goal "-- get the French out of Vietnam. The U.S. Embassy with thousands of people in Baghdad could create a similar strategic target for ISIS. |