New Dudeness
by Will, 19 November 2007
Something To Give Thanks For — Good news from Iraq
As I began by saying, I am not at all certain that any of this apparently good news is really genuine or will be really lasting. However, I am quite sure both that it could be true and that it would be wonderful if it were to be true. What worries me about the reaction of liberals and Democrats is not the skepticism, which is pardonable, but the dank and sinister impression they give that the worse the tidings, the better they would be pleased. The latter mentality isn’t pardonable and ought not to be pardoned, either.
Monday 19 November 2007 at 22:14
I really don’t think that leftists give that impression. Maybe the power-mad leftists do. But no one sane wants more violence there. And even if it does ‘work,’ and the worst of the violence is over, it still doesn’t make our actions ‘right.’
Tuesday 20 November 2007 at 0:08
“Make our actions right” - some are always worried if their subgroup is going to get into Heaven!
Tuesday 20 November 2007 at 15:36
What does it make them, then John?
Wrong to remove a brutal dictator when a number of members of the UN Security Council opposed it because they were in Saddam’s pay?
Wrong to stick around for a number of years to help a wretchedly dysfunctional country back onto the rails despite all sorts of ill-intended intervention by ambitious jihadis seeking to impose Sharia law and Baathists trying to regain power?
Wrong because the invasion resulted in a late shuffling of contraband chemical weapons and accoutrements of nukes out of the country into hiding places in Syria and the Beka Valley by Russian special forces so as to keep Putin’s dirty little secret?
Tuesday 20 November 2007 at 16:05
Lynne, where are you getting that last bit from? I’ve not heard it before.
Wednesday 21 November 2007 at 0:48
I am past caring what stupid fucking wankers think about what happened when it happened.
Wednesday 21 November 2007 at 23:57
Wrong to invade a sovereign nation which had yet to pose a threat to surrounding nations post the first Gulf War.
I never believed we should’ve withdrawn from Iraq after we destroyed it, but I find it hard to believe that an educated person would think that the coalition’s methods of rebuilding were anywhere near the vicinity of doing ‘right’ by the Iraqi people.
And I’ve used ‘right’ in quotes because in as much as I believe there is a right and wrong, what those are have to remain relative and subjective.
Thursday 22 November 2007 at 0:30
What a load of guff.
Sunday 25 November 2007 at 15:19
What, John, is your image of what would have happened after our withdraw?