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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (147623)10/11/2004 4:10:03 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
If you are going to cherry pick a quote from Ignatieff then you have to also include such morsels as:

"Ordinary American ignorance was compounded by the administration's arrogance. Gen. George C. Marshall began planning the postwar occupation of Germany two years before D-Day. This administration was fumbling for a plan two months before the invasion.

Who can read Bob Woodward's ''Plan of Attack'' and not find his jaw dropping at the fact that from the very beginning, in late 2001, none of the civilian leadership, not Rice, not Powell, not Tenet, not the president, asked where the plan for the occupation phase was?

Who can't feel that U.S. captains, majors and lieutenants were betrayed by the Beltway wars between State and Defense? Who can't feel rage that victorious armies stood by and watched for a month while Iraq was looted bare" -- Michael Ignatieff, "Mirage in the Dessert"

I don't always disagree with Ignatieff -- in fact I wholeheartedly agree with "the error of France isn't to seek to have an independent policy; its error is to pretend to defend the multilateral framework and yet not take action." -- a problem not restricted to France.

Sadly the Bush administration decided to present a dishonest case for war, which has had the unintended consequence of undermining US credibility at a juncture in history where credibility is needed the most.

Some don't think it matters to work to uphold credibility and stature in the world: I disagree. The real war on terror has a hundreds of simultaneous fronts - no one nation, not even one as powerful as the modern US, can fight everywhere at the same time.
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