Hawkmoon, if I see a child in front of a bus, and I know the child won't be able to run fast enough to avoid being hit, my understanding that something terrible is going to happen, does not make me WANT it to happen. You can make dichotomies all you want, until the cows come home and much on them, but my (and other people) seeing no very good solution to a mess created in haste, and now repented in leisure, does not mean I (or others) wanted it to be a mess, or that we wouldn't have been thrilled if it had (or was going to) turn our differently.
We're not losing the opportunity to reform Iraq, because we never had that- it was an amazingly naive dream. What we had was the dramatic opportunity to invade a country, and occupy it, which we've had some experience with before. Do I WISH that such invasions resulted in super good things? You bet I do, especially when I consider, in every detail, the cost in human life, and in cold hard cash. I STILL hope it turns out well, and there's a chance it may- but I see numerous other ends to this game, and some of them are pretty dismal. The fact that I see those possibilities, does not mean I want them to happen. |
