Read and Learn
UPDATE: WaPo Iraq-think endorsed by Kos … “Self-serving, revisionist rationalizing is the only way to describe today’s Washington Post editorial marking the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war.” I already like it better.
Washington Post editorial thoughtfully examines lessons learned over the last four years and ends with the conclusion:
It’s tempting to say that if it was wrong to go in, it must be wrong to stay in. But how Iraq evolves will fundamentally shape the region and deeply affect U.S. security. Walking away is likely to make a bad situation worse. A patient, sustained U.S. commitment, with gradually diminishing military forces, could still help Iraq to move in the right direction.
I hope the anti-war crowd, in DC to squawk and wave signs, picked up the Post this morning. I don’t agree with every point, including the “gradually diminishing” part, unless it is based on practical, on-the-ground considerations rather than a ridiculous, politically driven exit schedule. But the exit-at-all-costs crowd could stand a little more sober reflection of this sort.
However, this WaPo story about the counter-protest reminds me a little of drunk-driving news reports in the Kuwaiti press, which got to pains to describe the perp’s degree of derangement.
Topics: Iraq
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:45 pm on Sunday, March 18, 2007
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March 18th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Something is wrong here. The WaPo’s staff has been taken over by pod people.
March 18th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
The comment by an anti-war thug about the vets which the WaPo chose to quote cracked me up with its unintended irony–something like “a bunch of hooligans in biker jackets” or some such. That and the picture they chose to print–out of all the ones they could have chosen–is very telling about which side the editors are on. I couldn’t help but think that they are still spitting on us vets, just like they did all those years ago. The hatred goes deep, I guess.
March 18th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
2007.03.18 Iraq/Iran Roundup
Poll: Iraqis prefer life under Maliki to life under Saddam, 49%-26% Allahpundit Another 16% said they both reek.
March 18th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
But the exit-at-all-costs crowd could stand a little more sober reflection of this sort.
And a butterfly in Brazil caused Hurricane Katrina, and wishes are horses, and pigs will fly when we see that kind of thing from those people.
March 18th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
The Day We Took Our Country Back
Forty years lost in the wilderness. Forty years in exile. Behind us now. Yesterday we took our country back. It’s in the air. I can feel it. Can you?