Ah, on Josh Marshall first of all. Josh has been wrong and, no doubt, will be wrong in the future.
If, however, the measure of whether we are worth listening to is that we are always right, no one could afford to listen to anyone. So did Marshall get some things wrong? Most certainly.
But on the more specific question of whether that particular post indicates he was wrong in writing approvingly of the Nelson report stuff, that's a bit more dicey. Part of it is simply observations about what was happening in the WH. Who knows whether that was right or wrong? Certainly not you and I.
The other part is whether if the US turned security over to the Iraqis after June 30th in 04, all would go down the tubes in some sort of civil war, that prediction, we'll never know. Because the US didn't do that. Perhaps it would have; perhaps it would not have.
As for the larger question, you are no doubt waving around, the prediction that Iraq would turn out bad, that's another one we simply don't know the answer about yet.
As for your rant about Krugman, rant on. It is what it is. However, if you ever get interested in not-ranting, you might read the book he put together of the first set of NYTimes columns. They are eerily prescient. |
