Webb just had Opinion Journal publish a piece by him about his five favorite books.
One of the Books he recommended, and I agree on the choice, is "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman. I wrote this response to Opinon Journal, which they published:
Referring to "The Guns of August" Mr. Webb wrote: "This is the book that every policy maker pushing for the invasion of Iraq should have read, marked, learned from and digested before sending the U.S. off to war."
So Webb believes we "rushed" to war with Iraq. He also apparently thinks the events leading to the war in Iraq present an unequivocal and clear parallel with the events of August 1914. This is a clearly a person who doesn't realize the way the world changed on September 11, 2001, and now he wants to be a senator.
Great, just what we need. The fact that people like Anthony Zinni and John Murtha support him should tell us all we need to know when we consider which national-security policies he would support as an elected official.
I think one John Kerry in the Senate is one more than we should have, and two of them if Webb succeeds is an excess.
Apparently what Webb learned from 9/11 is that when someone declares war on us we should wait for them to kill thousands of Americans before we respond in kind. If I am wrong and that is not Webb's position, how does one explain Webb's opposition to going to war against a regime (i.e. Iraq) that was routinely firing missiles at our pilots before we responded by going to war against them.