…turns literal. It’s Mark Steyn, so RTWT.
I supported removing Saddam Hussein, but it was because I genuinely thought that the Bush/Cheney administration had strategic goals and plans for the Middle East, including dealing with Iran. Boy was I wrong.
I supported removing Saddam Hussein,
I wasn’t. I remember having water cooler conversations at work at the time about the wisdom of going back into Iraq. I didn’t think it was wise or warranted. Esp. after I found out that DS-1, to “rescue Kuwait” was all about Halliburton contracts and “whip-stocking”. It’s an oil-man’s term for drilling. Look it up. Think about an underground oil reservoir that might be shaped like a pan handle that just happens to have that handle connect to the pan across an international border on the surface.
Perhaps a deep pot with handle is a better analogy than just a shallow pan…
I supported removing Saddam. Still have bookmarks of articles talking about the various chemical weapons we found there but I no longer deploy them to defend Bush because he did a bad job managing the peace in Iraq and then stabbed his party in the back.
I used to think the commies at the State Department were to blame for the failures in Iraq but it turns out, Bush’s ideology is closer to Obama’s than America’s. Our ruling class has been a bipartisan failure.
We didn’t go to war with North Korea when the jolly old elf used a binary chemical weapon in a Western friendly third country to get rid of his half brother…
Less the Uniparty, and more the University Party.
Not only have all the major and minor government operators been through various elite schools, and the contacts those bring, but they have had to nod their heads at the right times in seminars. That has a cumulative effect toward thinking along the same lines.
The State Department is particularly affected by this sort of thing in their worldview. Effecting change in both Iraq *and* Iran would have been a far more radical change to the world than this crowd was willing to contemplate. Multiculturalism as the singular acceptable norm, … the sustaining of agrarian cultures, over the worldwide development of an industrial culture at far higher rates of productivity, is the norm in universities around the world.
Until we replace universities and their dependent institutions with ways to move knowledge from one generation to the next that do not look to the State as the uber social norm above all else, then we will continue to run into this problem, as a society.
Love K’s appeal to
Republicanswho have endorsed her for President. After all the Dems have pitched a tent big enough to fit everyone in the re-education camp.“…including dealing with Iran.”
I think this describes me pretty well, also. I remember at the time arguing it had as much to do with where Iraq was at on the map as anything Saddam had done.