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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (22286)8/21/2006 2:01:43 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
What year do you think this is?

Betsy's Page

Ross Douhat had an interesting column a week ago, but it got lost in my stack. He was looking at all the historical analogies that people have been making about the war on terror and broke it down according to what year people have found parallels to in our current situation.

There are those like Pat Buchanan, and now William F. Buckley, and George Will who regard see echoes of Woodrow Wilson's futile idealism in Bush's desire to bring democracy to regions of the world where it never existed. For them, it is 1919 all over again and time for our foreign policy to pull in.

Some neoconservatives like Bill Kristol see this as similar to 1938, with Iraq a regional conflict that gives hint of the major conflagration about to come and so we must avoid all hints of appeasement in order to avoid a much larger war.

Other conservatives and war supporters think we're in 1942, the beginning of a major fight and we must show the same determination that we showed after the first battles of World War Two. Bush himself would fall into this category.

Then there are left-of-center supporters of the war who think it is 1948 and that we are in the middle of a long, seemingly endless war, against terrorism. The strategies we should be using now are multilateralism and containment to avoid our cold war becoming even hotter.

And finally, there are the come home now people on the left who think it is 1972. Iraq is Vietnam and Bush is Nixon. You know the drill.

Where you stand on the war depends on which historical parallel you find most appropriate.

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