Posted on 09/10/2003 11:15:39 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
With this headline on its lead story Tuesday, echoed by The New York Times yesterday, The Washington Post told the troubling tale: "Reserve Tours Are Extended" - with this subhead: "Army Orders 1-Year Stay in Iraq, Nearby Nations."
Conventional wisdom about Iraq and more broadly the Middle East is conventionally wrong. The conventional lines of attack against the Bush administration over the past months have gone like this...
The WMDs never existed; the administration lied. (In England, the government-run BBC assault on Tony Blair has made the government-supported and way-left NPR here seem like a bunch of moderate pikers.) "Let the UN lead in the rebuilding of Iraq (but let's not blame the UN and supercilious European continentals if they demur). Administration postwar planning was as idiotic as its intelligence on WMDs. Even trying to establish democracy in Iraq (or among the Afghans or Palestinians) is naive. Now these jokers want $87 billion more - and for what? With U.S. military deaths in Iraq since May now surpassing the number killed during formal combat, dare anyone utter the dread Vietnam-era word "quagmire"?
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