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Why We Are in Vietnam

I must have posted a dozen links in the past few days to stories about the barrage of criticism levied against the Bush administration's war blueprint. What will history say when the smoke clears, if it does? At least two things, for a start: The invasion plan reflected a staggering blindness as to the not-so-unpredictable response of the Iraqi people--a blindness, that is, regarding how the US is now seen in the Arab world and elsewhere. That arrogant wishfulness was compounded by another, more desperate kind of wishfulness dictated by world opinion. The sheer outrage directed at the invasion before it started, abroad and at home, practically demanded a tidy and quick war. So the Rumsfeld claque cooked up a plan for executing one and made themselves believe the primitive and easily frightened Iraqis would not dare resist.

And that's how we got here. Isn't it? Your thoughts appreciated; the email link is at left.   

Posted by Steve Perry at March 31, 2003 10:50 AM

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