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Monday, May 10, 2004
MIND YOU, HE SAYS HE STILL WOULD
HAVE SUPPORTED THE WAR. Andrew Sullivan writes:
The one anti-war argument
that, in retrospect, I did not take seriously enough was a simple
one. It was that this war was noble and defensible but that this
administration was simply too incompetent and arrogant to carry it
out effectively. I dismissed this as facile Bush-bashing at the
time. I was wrong. I sensed the hubris of this administration
after the fall of Baghdad, but I didn't sense how they would
grotesquely under-man the post-war occupation, bungle the
maintenance of security, short-change an absolutely vital mission,
dismiss constructive criticism, ignore even their allies (like the
Brits), and fail to shift swiftly enough when events span out of
control.
No chortling here. This is a
monumental tragedy. I opposed the war from the beginning, but always
thought that the reasons to go to war were good ones - not WMDs
(remember, the UN weapons inspectors were just starting to gear up)
and the non-existent ties to Al Qaeda, but the ongoing humanitarian
catastrophe caused by Saddam Hussein's Hitlerian regime, compounded
by more than a decade of Western sanctions.
If Bush had only taken the time and
shown the patience to build a genuine international coalition, things
might look very different today.
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