20
Jun
A Concise Analysis of Bush’s Iraq Policy
Topic: Politics
Occasionally someone will plainly elucidate, in the space of relatively few words, what others have a hard time saying clearly. Today that person is Josh Marshall:
…For the United States, the situation in Iraq is close to unprecedented in the last century in terms of the duration of time an American president has left a war policy on autopilot while more and more evidence comes in that it’s simply not working. Even in Vietnam, for all the mistakes the US made there, Richard Nixon kept escalating the conflict. There’s at least some strategic movement on the policy brain scan. I’m not saying that’s preferable. And I don’t want to get into an argument about bombing Cambodia. But it is at least different from letting a flawed policy grind through money and men for three years because you don’t have the moral courage to rethink it or adjust course. It’s denial elevated to the level of high principle.
Remember what the president said: getting out of Iraq is something that’s going to be up to the next president. He or she can get started in 2009.
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