"If Iraq is a "failure", it will be a failure of and by the people who live there, who are 99.9% Iraqi."
Sorry Elroy, but just as Vietnam is today regarded as a MASSIVE foreign policy blunder of the Unitied States, the blame for which falls on the "deciders" of the time, LBJ and then Nixon, Iraq will be regarded the same way.
The Republicans are trying to spin the meme that the Iraqis just don't seem to DESERVE or want democracy enough, but history won't buy it. It's just a useful excuse right now. The spinners of the time tried the same with the corrupt governments we put up in Vietnam, and saying the S. Vietnamese just didn't WANT it as much as the North. History didn't buy it then either.
Bush screwed the pooch in Iraq, a complete, MASSIVE foreign policy failure. One the will have lasting negative effects, long after Bush is gone. Just as with LBJ, people won't forget who's ultimately responsible. Only with Iraq, Bush was even more the top war pimp and cheerleader than LBJ was with Vietnam. |
