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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (155622)1/8/2005 3:18:23 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
I read your argument with ionesco with interest.

Seems to me that it is all a matter of who do you hate the most. The Left hated Saddam when he was a so-called ally of the US, then noticeably reduced the heat when the time came to go after him.

But I think that the Left's problems with Bush's actions in Iraq are really a mixture of a lot of things. In my view, the most important factor is a very personalized one, namely, a visceral hatred of Bush which trumps Saddam's misdeeds. This business of "risk calculation," etc., is ex post facto balderdash. It's the same [I suppose] psychological dynamic we saw during the Vietnam war, with LBJ and Nixon being the goats instead of W, while the Vietcong's atrocities were seriously minimized and, in fact, made glamorous.
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