As vast quantities of blood and treasure are expended abroad, Washington politicians win plaudits domestically for their warmongering, and government contracting at home and abroad burgeon, on what basis is this imperial projectfinanced by foreign lenders and American taxpayersjustified?...
Even harder to take your counter argument seriously, since you don't appear to have one.
We don't hear much from you jingoists these days.
I have shouted my objection to this multi-"explained" Iraq adventure from day one, stating that its only possible result would be a fruitless waste of blood and treasure.
That remains my story and I'm stickin' to it.
I don't think the Iraq war was a waste at all. We have had a lot of benefits from it, not the least of which is eliminating a sworn enemy who had a penchant for nursing grudges, no compunction about using terror, and total control of a semi-major state to back it up. Really, we've gone over this ground so many times, the arguments to justify the war are many and they are all out there explained down to the tiniest details. It's the contrary view that if asserted needs to prove its case, and a line like I quoted clearly assumes the contrary view without seeing any need to support it. I heard and hear that exact same view, in the same words, advanced by socialists and anti-Americans alike, and it is no more substantial now than when bribed Europeans were making it.