A Moral War: The project in Iraq can succeed, and leave its critics scrambling.

Victon Davis Hanson On The Web - Private Papers ^ | December 02, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson

[K-oneTexas]

The project in Iraq can succeed, and leave its critics scrambling.

Almost everything that is now written about Iraq rings not quite right: It was a “blunder”; there should have been far more troops there; the country must be trisected; we must abide by a timetable and leave regardless of events on the ground; Iraq will soon devolve into either an Islamic republic or another dictatorship; the U.S. military is enervated and nearly ruined; and so on. [snip]

Strangely, I doubt whether very many would agree with much of anything stated above — at least for now. But if the administration can emphasize the moral nature of this war, and the military can continue its underappreciated, but mostly successful efforts to defeat the enemy and give the Iraqis a few more months of breathing space, who knows what the current opportunists and pessimists will say by summer.Will they say that they in fact were always sorta, kinda, really for removing Saddam and even staying on to see democracy work in Iraq? [snip]

[K-oneTexas]

Interesting article, covers a broad range of subjects briefly but extremely well and it pulls them all together within in the article. Quite interesting makes the reader do some thinking. Especially the last paragraph.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Excellent article.

[Zacs Mom]

Good article! Thanks for posting it!



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