From Reason‘s other Young comes another courageous defense of the Bush administration:
- Iraq always was essential to the anti-terrorism battle precisely because victory there was regarded as necessary to transform societies from where terrorists, spawned by suffocating regimes, had emerged. One can disagree with the practicability of such a strategy, but it is difficult to fault its logic.
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Whatever the dissembling from officials seeking justification for an invasion of Iraq—and there is no doubt the effort was improperly managed thanks, in part, to harshly contending agendas within the Bush administration—the diagnosis was a correct one.
The best response to this came from a Hit & Run poster, who wrote,
- OK, let me see if I understand this:
1) They didn’t tell us the REAL reason for the war because they figured that We the People might put the kibbosh on the war.
2) But despite that obvious disrespect for We The People they still want to install representative government in Iraq.
3) They can’t actually transform American inner-cities into beacons of security, prosperity, and the rule of law, despite generations of social engineering. However, they’re confident that they can get Iraq right.
4) Moreover, they’re confident that, after pulling off the first successful social engineering project in the history of the federal government, the results of this successful project will create a domino effect in the rest of the region.
Man, I thought Bush had laid off the Colombian stuff. I’d say he’s still doing some sort of mind-altering substance if he actually thinks this plan will work. Pass me some of that neocon weed, man!