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Milo:
What's your problem? I said in the piece "As near as I can tell." I did not make a statement of fact that the Baker piece was the earliest example of the stabbed in the back meme.
Jesus lord what a dick.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 28.06.2007 @ 17:12
You're right - at least as far as blaming the press. I think Baker was the first to actually include the anti-war community as those who would be accused of stabbing the country in the back.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 28.06.2007 @ 14:09
Greg:
I don't believe recriminations regarding "losing the war" will fall on anyone except Bush. There will be blame for undermining the morale of the American people for the simple reason that this was an announced goal of anti-war supporters and others on the left. They made no secret of their desire to sap the will of the American people and to cause a humiliating defeat of the United States. They sincerely believed that this humiliation would "teach us a lesson" and change our foreign policy.
You can't deny this. And you might want to watch this space in the next couple of days because I am doing an article for The American Thinker on exactly this subject.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 27.06.2007 @ 08:45
I disagree. I actually think that once it is clear we are going to redeploy, unlike some Democrats who believe this will be a spur to the Iraqi government to get moving, I think it will cause the factions to start preparing for the aftermath.
There will be blood - especially in the south where the Badr and Sadr forces will square off. But I think generally, there's a chance that a transition to a more stable, more authoritarian society is possible. The trick will be to prevent wholesale slaughter of the Sunnis when this happens because it will almost certainly be a Shia sitting on the throne in Baghdad.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 26.06.2007 @ 14:35
I don't dispute military progress - or political progress as it relates to teh Sunnis in central Iraq.
But to what end the progress? What good is being done if the Iraqi government fails to do the things necessary to unite the country? If they don't or can't do that, it is death squads and terrorism and chaos - even with our limited successes in Anbar and elsewhere.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 26.06.2007 @ 14:24
That's because the answer to what to do in Iraq is not in any vote but in the Administration sitting down with the Democrats to iron out a solution that both sides could support.
Funding the mission then becomes a bipartisan endeavor not a war.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 26.06.2007 @ 12:09
Doug:
I see your point but that doesn't change how I feel when the most respected Republican in the Senate on foreign policy comes to the same conclusions about Iraq that I have. And no one is accusing Lugar of being a traitor or a fake conservative or anything else. Nor should they.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 26.06.2007 @ 11:51
TINKERING WITH IMMIGRATION BOMB WILL ONLY SET IT OFF
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Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 28.06.2007 @ 18:30
Your comment was deleted for using an obscenity.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 28.06.2007 @ 18:39
Ed:
I think I usually use that "device" when positing hypotheticals or, as in this case, practicing a little alternative history which most real historians find less than useful.
It's a way of downplaying whatever conclusions you want to draw from a hypothetical - which is, after all, by definition unsupported by much evidence - or an alternative history scenario that is by its nature fraught with danger.
Comment Posted By Rick Moran On 22.06.2007 @ 14:46
