One of the wars chief cheerleaders (the insufferable David Frum) just published a monstrosity of an article in a reputable media outlet ("The Iraq War Reconsidered" in The Atlantic) which insists that as gruesome as the Iraq War was it somehow managed to become a net positive for Iraqis (at least for those who weren't murdered, raped, to…
One of the wars chief cheerleaders (the insufferable David Frum) just published a monstrosity of an article in a reputable media outlet ("The Iraq War Reconsidered" in The Atlantic) which insists that as gruesome as the Iraq War was it somehow managed to become a net positive for Iraqis (at least for those who weren't murdered, raped, tortured or maimed and who don't object to living in a failed state riven by violence and corruption). The U.S. wrecked Iraq with the enthusiastic support of useful idiots like Frum who remain fixtures in polite society. Shameful.
I do not understand how the myth of U.S. military supremacy has survived our military debacles in the Middle East where we were badly beaten by home grown crews of ill equipped fighters. After our ass was handed to us in Afghanistan, we provoked a proxy war in Ukraine against a peer nuclear power. We are doing the same with China.
A dangerous madness has infected our ruling class.
One of the wars chief cheerleaders (the insufferable David Frum) just published a monstrosity of an article in a reputable media outlet ("The Iraq War Reconsidered" in The Atlantic) which insists that as gruesome as the Iraq War was it somehow managed to become a net positive for Iraqis (at least for those who weren't murdered, raped, tortured or maimed and who don't object to living in a failed state riven by violence and corruption). The U.S. wrecked Iraq with the enthusiastic support of useful idiots like Frum who remain fixtures in polite society. Shameful.
I do not understand how the myth of U.S. military supremacy has survived our military debacles in the Middle East where we were badly beaten by home grown crews of ill equipped fighters. After our ass was handed to us in Afghanistan, we provoked a proxy war in Ukraine against a peer nuclear power. We are doing the same with China.
A dangerous madness has infected our ruling class.