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Bush's closest friends and allies turn against him
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| HardTranceProd |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15773983/
Remember Richard Perle? Adelman? some other architects of the Iraq policy?
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"If I had known that the U.S. was going to essentially establish an occupation, then I'd say, 'Let's not do it,' " and instead find another way to target Hussein"
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I love it how the neo-cons are trying to distance themselves from the Iraq debacle only now: three and a half years after the fact, three years after the entire enterprise devolved into complete and yet only days after a crushing midterm defeat. Every failure of the Iraq policy on levels both practical (small troop numbers, lack of post-war planning etc.) and idealistic (the concept of "benevolent hegemony", the democratic "domino theory" etc.) can be traced back to failures in neo-conservative thought. Rather than own up to the undeniable naivety of their ideology, they naturally choose to play the blame game and distance themselves from the neo-imperialistic cluster that they've been championing since the 1990s.
I mean, really:
| quote: | | "If I had known that the U.S. was going to essentially establish an occupation, then I'd say, 'Let's not do it,' " and instead find another way to target Hussein" |
And what was Perle's plan exactly? Depose Saddam and then leave the country immediately, relying on the rose-petal-strewing freedom-lovers in Iraq to establish a functional democracy on their own, without any sort of security (all Iraqi security forces, naturally, being completely disbanded with the fall of Baghdad) or economic input? That a disparate nation of 24 million people would all of a sudden begin to get along and form a government without any in-fighting just because they'd caught a whiff of democracy in their nostrils? What the was his post war plan, then, and why didn't he tell anybody?
I'm not saying that Bush and others in his administration don't have to take the lion's share of the blame for this, but for delusional idealogues like Perle to just throw their hands up in the air and say "Hey, not my fault!" is really ing sickening. You see what's happening there now, Dick? This is your "benevolent hegomony" in action in the real world. |
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