It Didn't Work (Iraq is Lost)

National Review ^ | 2/25/06 | Buckley

[pabianice]

Bummer.

[ReaganRevolution]

No worries. I don't hold too much stock in someone who was against the war in the first place, determining it's failure.

[bnelson44]

Duplicate

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585211/posts

[IncPen]

they have not been able to contend against the ice men who move about in the shadows with bombs and grenades and pistols.

Iran, for instance.

[LS]

Funny, did you ever hear that WFB went to Iraq? I didn't. But I have followed the exploits and writings of American Enterprise Institute's Karl Zinsmeister, who has been there THREE TIMES on extended tours. He claims just the opposite. In fact, he argues that over 95% of the country, business is growing and thriving, that people are happy and generally secure, that things are pretty effing good.

This is EXACTLY the report I am getting from several of my military students who are in the region now, or who have just come back.

Wonder whose opinion I trust on this more?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

More MSM drivel..why don't they do an article on all the schools that are being opened, more power being supplied, people busy making a living that they couldn't do before, the thanks we get from ordinary Iraqis who know firsthand how it used to be..because that would be considered good news, and we know the MSM will be the last to report things are actually going very, very well..

[YourAdHere]

I betcha that clothing merchant has B.O.

[Cold Heat]

I've been buttin heads with Buck since the war began.

I quess that will continue. No surprise here...

[Zechariah11]

DUPLICATE THREAD

[wrathof59]

The American Left is now surrendering, conveniently blaming America. I beg to differ.

[Tax Government]

And the kernel here is the acknowledgment of defeat.

Finding a way to cause or claim defeat has been the author's objective, from the first moment.

[vimto]

It's best not to imagine anyone is ever going to say "thank you" whatever the outcome.

[EBH]

It does call on us to adjust to the question, What do we do when we see that the postulates do not prevail -- in the absence of interventionist measures (we used these against Hirohito and Hitler) that we simply are not prepared to take?

Which is what we should've done, but no...we needed to fight a PC war...idjit.

[Cold Heat]

As a addendum to my above comment......

This effort in that part of the world is much bigger than Iraq. The president has done a pretty fair job of outlining the overall strategy, and the key part of it is TIME!~

This will take a great deal of time.

What bush said was "long time", but translated for the interested parties, I would put that on a generation based clock. It will be two generations of Muslims before we see real substantive changes and can sit back and breathe a bit.

At least two generations. This means tha Buckley is a bit ahead of the clock.

[WKB]

[marvlus]

I believe we are between a rock and a hard place in Iraq right now. While I've been a strong supporter of our determination to help bring Peace and Democracy to the Middle East, I wonder how what it's going to take to turn around the hatred that Middle Easterners have for each other. At this point, I feel that Middle Easterners are the scourge of the planet. They are stupid, stupid, stupid! How do you fix stupidity?? They believe in a false god that encourages violence, force submission of women, and protest violently over a cartoon of their so-called founder. Sometimes I think we must be crazy to continue to try to push these lunatics to our way of democracy.

[jude24]

More MSM drivel.

William F. Buckley is hardly "mainstream media drivel." Agree with him or not, he deserves more than a prejudicial brush-off.

[kanawa]

Wonder whose opinion I trust on this more?

Why obviously, on someone that bases his insight on quotes from a New York Times reporter. /sarc

[tet68]

the kernel here is the acknowledgment of defeat.

Which course IS the sure way TO defeat.

[ansel12]

William F. Buckley and his National Review, ranks up there with Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, in building the Conservative movement. I hope WFB is wrong, but since Bush has 2 years to go and will probably have a Republican Senate and Congress, he will get his chance to fail or succeed, not many Presidents get that.