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Sunday, 14 January 2007

Sunday op-ed: “We can’t surrender to the doves”
Allahpundit

Charles Krauthammer? Bill Kristol? Mark Steyn? No, hawkish lefty Bush-hater extraordinaire Jonathan Chait.

Over-learning the lessons of the last war is a classic foreign policy blunder. Yet many liberals want to make the lessons of the Iraq debacle the central basis of American foreign policy…

But this is the flip side of the same impulse that got us into the current mess. Because the doves made so many bad predictions leading up to the Gulf War — remember the mass uprisings in the Arab world and tens of thousands of U.S. casualties? — many of us ignored warnings this time that proved more prescient.

There are many lessons to be absorbed from Iraq. We’d be foolish not to absorb them; only the most dense war supporter has come away from the experience unhumbled. ...

Of course we’ll learn lessons from Iraq. I’m worried that we’ll learn too much.

Update: Here’s another, from Edward Luttwak. Have we quagmired ourselves into a much stronger position in the Middle East? ...

Posted by Bill Faith on January 14, 2007 at 01:10 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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