Kirkpatrick: Iraq a Mistake
David Corn unearths the interesting factoid the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick said Iraq was a mistake in a book that will be published posthumously:
She had just completed a book entitled Making War To Keep Peace, which is being published next month. In the book, she reports--apparently for the first time--that she had "grave reservations" about George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. She notes that at the time, "I was privately critical of the Bush administration's argument for the use of military force for preemptive self-defense." She does not say where and to whom she voiced her misgivings--if she did. Most strikingly, she argues that the war--with respect to bringing democracy to Iraqis--did more harm than good.
Of course, as Corn goes on to note, she didn't, say, do anything that might possibly have impacted the course of events.
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Even worse, she appears to have been a public cheerleader for the war as given by Corn's examples. She lived and died by the personality cult.
god, did any of these people ever sit in an elementary logic class for two seconds in their entire lives? if you have the power to stop or impede something that you feel morally is wrong, and you don't speak up, you are a bigger part of the problem than the people who don't see it as morally wrong and go ahead and launch wars based off lies because they can.
at least they have the defense of being insane, you have the defense of being a moral coward.
and then she brags that she protested the war privately.
well, that's a fucking profile in courage if i've ever heard one.
Just like Gerald Ford, she wants to let us know posthumously that she was right about this. Not so courageous.
Worse yet, we could see a repeat with Iran. Yeah, yeah of course we're all more skeptical now, blah, blah...But honestly, if the war fever ratchets up, who among those that can actually influence events will step up?
Especially given that the loudest cheerleaders will be AIPAC and similar Likudniks who don't hesitate to play the anti-semite card as a first recourse. Dems are even more beholden to, and frightened of these groups. Clinton? Edwards? Lantos? Pelosi? All have dreadful histories in this arena.
Maybe the media will thwart it - ROTFLMAO
"if you have the power to stop or impede something that you feel morally is wrong, and you don't speak up, you are a bigger part of the problem than the people who don't see it as morally wrong and go ahead and launch wars based off lies because they can."
Although I agree that Kirkpatrick and Ford (not to mention Bush Sr. and his gang, save Brent Scowcroft who did speak up) should have spoken during the run up to the war , I don't think they really could have impacted public opinion or, even less likely, the administration in any way that would have prevented the war from happening.
Except Kirkpatrick was actually a Bush functionary within the UN. It's one thing to be prominent and hold private reservations a la Ford, but it's another thing to think someone is wrong and actively work through the UN to ensure such a war will reach fruitation.
I don't think they really could have impacted public opinion or, even less likely, the administration in any way that would have prevented the war from happening.
All it took was one little boy to ask why the emperor had no clothes.
There will eventually be a list of conservatives running in the hundreds if not thousands that "privately had grave reservations about war with Iraq" yet did nothing substantive about it.
"All it took was one little boy to ask why the emperor had no clothes."
Well, there were people who raised concerns, and they either lost access to the President or were fired. The President and his inner circle aren't exactly benign people who listen to everyone around them. They were convinced they were taking the right course of action and anyone who disturbed that course was either fired, lost access, or publicly humiliated.
Kirkpatrick should have raised concerns (if she actually had them at the time) and risked public humiliation, just because it was the right thing to do (like, as Lyle wrote, we learned in elementary school). But she probably wouldn't have accomplished anything.
grave reservations published posthumously? Isn't it what "(from the) grave reservations" mean? [Or is "grave reservation" a synonym for a cemetery?]
Then, figuratively, "objections you would not dare to publish, other than from your grave".
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