Lord Saletan writes an apologia for his support of the Iraq War in Slate. Unfortunately, he hasn't learned a damn thing:
Everything Bush wrongly attributed to Iraq turns out to be true of Iran.
Atrios also quotes Tim Noah on the real question: Why do the people who were terribly wrong about Iraq even get any media space, let alone get a column in the NY Times?
A larger question, though: Why should you waste your time, at this late date, ingesting the opinions of people who were wrong about Iraq? Wouldn't you benefit more from considering the views of people who were right? Five years after this terrible war began, it remains true that respectable mainstream discussion about its lessons is nearly exclusively confined to people who supported the war, even though that same mainstream acknowledges, for the most part, that the war was a mistake. That's true of Slate's symposium, and it was true of a similar symposium that appeared March 16 on the New York Times' op-ed pages. The people who opposed U.S. entry into the Iraq war, it would appear, are insufficiently "serious" to explain why they were right.
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I wonder if Limbaugh still places Strata-sphere high on his must read list, speaking of those consistently wrong.
Today, despite Iranian funding and control of myriad Shia militias running southern Iraq, despite economic and military deals being discussed by a feted Iranian president visiting Iraq, (which governmenthas pledged to defend Iran if America attacks it,) Strata
lectures a commentor who dares say Iran has gained power from the war.
Despite jihadists carrying out unprecedented attacks across Pakistan and despite the rebounding Taliban controlling a third of Afghanistan,and conducting daring strikes in Kabul, Strata brags about their virtual defeat in both nations.
Strata's cake of lies iced off
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/
with a post declaring a retracting McCain was right about Iran funding Al Qaeda in Iraq, quoting unsubstantiated claims by those with "Curveball" credibility, even as the sources describe confabs where Al Qaeda lectured their members to align with rather than attack Shias! All this before the attacks on the Shia shrines and gatherings by the very same Al Qaeda, which Strata and McCain, if they could get away with it, would conflate into prompting a region-wide American war against the Islamic world.
But supposing Iran is playing it all ways against the middle in Iraq.Strata, America aided both Iran and Iraq in their war, to prolong the blood flow of two of Israel's enemies.
It's okay when we do it, eh?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/21/iraq.alqaida
In the real world, anti-Al Qaeda Sunnis are turning against America again.
with a post declaring a retracting McCain was right about Iran funding Al Qaeda in Iraq
Ken,
That seems to be the line the diehard wingnuts are taking. A couple of nights ago, I heard Tammy Bruce, a 2nd string radio gasbag, make the same claim.
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