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Tango01 | 25 Apr 2019 12:55 p.m. PST |
…Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy. "The operative word in the title of "Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy" is the last one: tragedy. Drawing on extensive interviews with unnamed "senior officials" as well as recently declassified documents, Michael J. Mazarr attributes the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 to good intentions gone awry. Here is an example of "America's worthy global ambitions" that went "terribly wrong."
Yet the evidence Mazarr himself assembles refutes that conclusion. Chalking up the debacle of Iraq to "the messianic tradition in American foreign policy," as he does, simply won't wash. It's akin to writing off a vehicular homicide because the driver happens to be a known alcoholic. The Iraq war was not a tragedy. It was more like a crime, compounded by the stupefying incompetence of those who embarked upon a patently illegal preventive war out of a sense of panic induced by the events of 9/11. An impulse to lash out overwhelmed any inclination to deliberate, with decisions made in a "hothouse atmosphere of fear and vulnerability." Those to whom President George W. Bush turned for advice had become essentially unhinged. Iraq presented an inviting opportunity to vent their wrath…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
lkmjbc3 | 25 Apr 2019 2:03 p.m. PST |
An amazingly cold and stale take. Joe Collins |
Legion 4 | 25 Apr 2019 3:15 p.m. PST |
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15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 25 Apr 2019 10:56 p.m. PST |
If the 9/11 attacks did not occur, there would most likely have been no GW2 because it would have been a much tougher sell for Bush and Cheney. |
Tango01 | 26 Apr 2019 11:42 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friends!. A must read….
Amicalement Armand |
brave face | 26 Apr 2019 1:59 p.m. PST |
I agree with what is shown of the article here… |
lkmjbc3 | 26 Apr 2019 6:49 p.m. PST |
Oosh..no. Not good intentions gone astray. How about anger being taken advantage of… again… A shallow and myopic analysis that misses the elephant in the room. Joe Collins |
Tango01 | 27 Apr 2019 11:25 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it too my friend. Amicalement Armand
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