Carroll: The War Is Lost
James Carroll, writing in the Boston Globe, has a terse analysis: The truth about Iraq.
It’s interesting to me how we’ve basically moved on. The WMD discussion is essentially over: They aren’t there, and weren’t there. These days the focus is on the failure of the justification trotted out after that one: that we invaded Iraq in order to transform it from a brutal dictatorship that was a state-sponsor of terrorism into a pro-Israel democracy that would be a beacon of peace in a troubled region.
So, how’s the peaceful beacon thing coming along? Uh huh. About the same as the last justification.
