WOW, this just in, WFB has 20/20 hindsite. (Or he wishes he did. Or he wishes everyone did. Or he wishes he could travel back in time.)
Only back to 2001.
"We fight our enemies because our enemies are fighting us, quite apart from whether we should have gotten ourselves into the quarrel in the first place."
He must have some senior moments about that war of attrition (one-sided) we were having with Saddam since 1991.
That's what he's saying - in hindsight. And he's right - except.
He's right about the WMD. Saddam was looking. He was frustrated. His corrupt regime was full of incompetent losers.
Except - what if the WMD ARE found, in Lebanon or Syria? Foresight, required?
He's right about oil. The price is at an all-time high, almost. If we'd know that . . .
Except - what if Saddam had threatened Saudi? Who knew his military was so hollow? or that he buried his air force in the desert? Nobody knew that. What would have happened to oil prices if Saddam had moved on Saudi? Would the Saudis have won - maybe? Or would the west be hurtin - bad? and for years to come?
You know, he's right. But he could be wrong. He's been in the past. He's been spot on, as well. I'm sorry to see he's getting old. We all do. His passing the NR on to others is really marks the end of an era in this country, known not for his recorded history or the news he made, but for how the historians and 'newsians'/reporters had to work around him, and Schlafly, without giving them the least public mention or notice. But they really knew they, and many others, were there. That seems, to me, sort of the 'freeper' mission, as well, as least as I read the messages, here.