I liked your post much better the second time I read it. I didn't see you were going at the same topic from a different angle, so I went back and took a look. It works. It also looks as if you are talking about a different topic.
As for your comment about the indeterminancy of the future, at the level you state it, one would have to agree. However, the point of rethinking, publicly, invasions like this one, is that in a democracy, we get to decide what we will do in similar circumstances next time around. That's the point, in one sense, of all this analysis, discussion, whatever. The problem with the Bush administration is that, in accord with its basic pattern, it wishes to offer a public persona of never making mistakes and of hiding as much as possible. Secrecy is the name of the game. Neither is good for a democracy. |
