George Will on Iraq War's 10th Anniversary: "Was the War worth it? ........
Sunday shows haven’t learned
This week: Everyone agrees that we must get serious about Balancing the Budget, no one feels guilty about Iraq
Salon SUNDAY, MAR 17, 2013
Happy tenth anniversary, Iraq War! To celebrate, America’s Sunday Shows got you a Nearly Complete Absence of Any Sense of Responsibility or Indication That Any Lessons Were Learned. Here’s what we got instead, today: Scaremongering about North Korea and Iran, great excitement about our new pope, and terribly unenlightening endless fact-free arguments about dueling federal budget proposals.
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Raddatz told everyone that according to a poll, Americans basically all agree that waging a war of choice in Iraq was a stupid decision, and while most of the people on that panel with the exception of Albright were very gung-ho about waging that war, no one was very apologetic. Hadley said the war was totally worth it and a big success because now Iraq has a pro-America government, so let’s also do some war in Syria.
George Will was the funniest. Was the war worth it? “If in 2003 we’d known what we know now — the absence of weapons of mass destruction, the difficulty of governing and occupying a society in which, once you lop off the regime, you’re going to have a civil war in a sectarian tribal society — the answer I think is obviously no.”
DEAR GEORGE WILL A LOT OF PEOPLE DID ACTUALLY KNOW ALL OF THOSE THINGS IN 2003 BUT NO ONE LISTENED TO THEM. PLUS ALSO JESUS CHRIST “OCCUPYING A COUNTRY THAT YOU JUST INVADED MIGHT BE HARD” IS NOT A SURPRISING LESSON.
Albright — the only person there who wasn’t disastrously wrong on Iraq, even though she was no hippie peacenik — was interrupted by Hadley when she tried to have her say, but when she was finally given a few seconds at the end of the panel to talk she at least said something that reminded everyone who was actually responsible for the entire catastrophe. “The Bush administration took their eye off the ball in Afghanistan in order to go after Iraq for God knows what reason,” she said, then she dropped the mic and everyone went home. (Well there was a depressing Bob Woodruff piece on PTSD and brain injuries among Iraq vets, actually, then everyone went home.)
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