Warring Tribes, Here and There [Rummy's failed war plan alert/Quagmire flashback]

New York Times ^ | April 2, 2003 | By MAUREEN DOWD

[freekitty]

I agree with you. Ms. Doooooowd has got her thinking screwed up.

[Former Proud Canadian]

If you can get through this entire screed, you have a strong stomach. If you agree with it, you have a soft head.

[Labyrinthos]

This was a war designed to change the nature of American foreign policy.

Is this really a change in U.S. policy? The libs claim the policy has changed because the U.S. is now willing to undertake military action without UN approval, in situations where she has not been directly attacked. Over the last 40 years, we have initiated military action in Viet Nam, Lybia, Greneda, Panama, Haiti, Somalia, Sudan, and Serbia, all without UN support or a direct threat to our Country. If our 300,000 or so weapon inspectors fail to discover weapons of mass distruction or evidence of a direct link between Sadamm and Bin Laden, then we ought to be applauded for purging the world of a ruthless, homocidal tyrant, much the way that we were applauded for purging Milosivec from Serbia without UN approval. If our weapons inspectors do find WMD, then GW and TB ought to share the Nobel Peace Prize. If we find a direct link between Sadamm and Bin Laden or any other terrorist organization who has attacked US interests at home or abroad, then we have done nothing more than respond appropriately to those attacks.

[Labyrinthos]

Does anyone have access to the columns that Dowd wrote when we were bombing the crap out of Serbia without UN approval or a direct threat to the U.S.? Just curious what she said then about the "change" in U.S. foreign policy.