Name one historical inaccuracy in this article. I dare you. Robert Higgs knows what he's talking about, he isn't even a "revisionist" to any notable degree, and this is his broader point: On the historical record, under both Republicans and Democrats as president, all have lied to get us into foreign wars, and this does not augur well for the current president's efforts.
You might dispute the assessment of the present threat, and whether it is one, but Higgs is not "lying."
Tell me please, if America had not gone abroad in WW II, where would every Jew in Europe now be? Up in smoke, perhaps?
Yes, that's exactly what happened to them. They went up in smoke. We could have bombed the railroads leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau and the other death factories. We could have admitted refugees. We did neither. Our adventure saved NO Jews except a relative handful of skeletal survivors in the camps.
Don't YOU read history?
Have you completely forgotten what happened on September 11, 2001?!
The new "bloody shirt." I remember it so vividly, since you ask, that I want to know what this new adventure of Imperium will do anew to stop those who planned and supported those atrocities. And how that issue connects, unmistakably, with Iraq. The answer on what has been shown thus far -- and if unmistakable evidence existed, we'd have had it waved in our faces by now -- is, in both cases, NOTHING.
Of course, for all I know, you could be Higgs, and if that is the case, don't give up your day job.
The president could have nuked every Arab capitol in hot blood by noon Sep 12, but he didn't. It could have been done, and justifiably. After Sept 12, that kind of retribution was no longer justifiable as it would have been deliberate in cold blood. Instead, the president is engaged in finding and eliminating all those enemies while doing as little other damage as possible. That includes Iraq now first on the list, and it is a long list. This will go until every item on the list is checked off. There is at least 2 more years of this to go, and possibly 30 years. It might be noted that Congress wants this done.