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May 04, 2004
They're not all liberals....
What's up with Washington Times editor Arnaud de Borchgrave? In a piece called "Looking for the Exit", he makes it sound as if we've lost the war in Iraq, and the only question about getting out is not if, but when: If it wasn't a quagmire, it was certainly quagmiry. And the first prominent retired general to break ranks with President Bush's Iraq war policy was a Republican who once headed the National Security Agency and also served as a deputy national security adviser. Gen. William E. Odom, a fluent Russian speaker who teaches at Georgetown and Yale universities, told the Wall Street Journal's John Harwood staying the course in Iraq is untenable. De Borchgrave is also in touch with the pulse of the Arab street: Arab opinion has been inflamed to the point where Palestine and Iraq are now two fronts in the war against what Charles de Gaulle used to call "the Anglo-Saxons." Osama bin Laden is probably thinking he's some kind of strategic genius.The editorial reads as if it had been written by Justin Raimondo, and I am a tad suspicious. Has anyone checked to see whether Reverend Moon was on the Saddam voucher payroll? (Moon's plans for the U.N. are not really a secret.) UPDATE: Lest anyone dismiss de Borchgrave as a lone voice, Bruce Fein (also writing in the Times) is thinking along similar lines. As was said of Napoleon's assassination of the Duc d'Enghein, President George W. Bush's inanely conducted effort to summon a secular democratic Iraq into being is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.Lots of work ahead, like it or not. I agree with Glenn Reynolds: ....[I]t's very, very important that we get this right. My concern is that if we don't, we'll have a much bigger war on our hands, in which we'll be forced to adopt the approach to casualties -- our own, and others' -- that we took in World War Two. That was right then, and I suppose it could be right in some horrific future situation, but I'd far rather avoid that situation. posted by Eric on 05.04.04 at 10:27 AM |
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