I haven't called Republicans "Neocons" since before the 2004 Election.
Looks like since they lost that it has become fashionable again to use that term by the press.
Things like this are starting to put history back on track to what was supposed to be written.
I will admit I was worried there for a while that Republicans would actually somehow pull off re-writing history in their own phoney terms.
Thank God that will not happen and thank God there is a at least a small chance the U.S. can be saved. That chance will come down to small percentage in 2008.
11-28-2006 'Neocons' abandon Iraq war at White House front door
The intellectual godfathers of the ruinous Iraq war - "neoconservatives" who insisted it would be a breeze to invade Iraq and transform it into a beacon of democracy in the Middle East - are jumping ship and pointing fingers.
Their scurrying defection is a telling measure of how poorly the war is going and how bleak the outlook is.
The neoconservative version of history is that the Iraq war was good idea undone by Bush administration incompetence after Saddam Hussein fell.
The pretext, of course, was that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction that represented an imminent threat to U.S. security.
It's important not to buy the new self-serving line from the neoconservatives, some of whom are already beating the drums for a pre-emptive attack on Iran's nuclear program. Recovering the international goodwill squandered in Iraq, and dealing wisely with the threats from Iran and North Korea, requires facing the mistakes squarely.
Although, on Sunday, the 1,347-day-old Iraq war was being compared in duration to WWII, the lessons are better drawn from Vietnam. Gen. Colin Powell, secretary of State in President Bush's first term, said his Vietnam generation learned from that experience to go into conflicts only with a defined mission, an overwhelming force and a clear exit strategy - and to reassess quickly if the mission changes.
Unfortunately, in Iraq, the Powell Doctrine took a back seat to neoconservative fantasies.
Looks like since they lost that it has become fashionable again to use that term by the press.
Things like this are starting to put history back on track to what was supposed to be written.
I will admit I was worried there for a while that Republicans would actually somehow pull off re-writing history in their own phoney terms.
Thank God that will not happen and thank God there is a at least a small chance the U.S. can be saved. That chance will come down to small percentage in 2008.
11-28-2006 'Neocons' abandon Iraq war at White House front door
The intellectual godfathers of the ruinous Iraq war - "neoconservatives" who insisted it would be a breeze to invade Iraq and transform it into a beacon of democracy in the Middle East - are jumping ship and pointing fingers.
Their scurrying defection is a telling measure of how poorly the war is going and how bleak the outlook is.
The neoconservative version of history is that the Iraq war was good idea undone by Bush administration incompetence after Saddam Hussein fell.
The pretext, of course, was that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction that represented an imminent threat to U.S. security.
It's important not to buy the new self-serving line from the neoconservatives, some of whom are already beating the drums for a pre-emptive attack on Iran's nuclear program. Recovering the international goodwill squandered in Iraq, and dealing wisely with the threats from Iran and North Korea, requires facing the mistakes squarely.
Although, on Sunday, the 1,347-day-old Iraq war was being compared in duration to WWII, the lessons are better drawn from Vietnam. Gen. Colin Powell, secretary of State in President Bush's first term, said his Vietnam generation learned from that experience to go into conflicts only with a defined mission, an overwhelming force and a clear exit strategy - and to reassess quickly if the mission changes.
Unfortunately, in Iraq, the Powell Doctrine took a back seat to neoconservative fantasies.
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