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February 01, 2005
What if Bush Was Right?
That is what several anti-war liberals are starting to wonder. First there is Mark Brown of the Chicago Sun Times, "But after watching Sunday's election in Iraq and seeing the first clear sign that freedom really may mean something to the Iraqi people, you have to be asking yourself: What if it turns out Bush was right, and we were wrong? It's hard to swallow, isn't it? If you fit the previously stated profile, I know you're fighting the idea, because I am, too. And if you were with the president from the start, I've already got your blood boiling. For those who've been in the same boat with me, we don't need to concede the point just yet. There's a long way to go. But I think we have to face the possibility."
John Stewart said yesterday, "I’ve watched this thing unfold from the start and here’s the great fear that I have: What if Bush, the president, ours, has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view will not sustain itself and I may, and again I don’t know if I can physically do this, implode." (via the corner)
I kind of sympathize with them. I thought at the time Clinton was slightly wrong about the whole Bosnia/Kosovo intervension, but in retrospect I think it was probably the right decision given the two bad choices Clinton had to pick from. One choice was to go along with the UN and do nothing and let the genocide continue. The other choice was to go against the UN and go to war to end the genocide. I guess the difference between me and the above quotes was that I realized back then that it was a complex decision and knew that there was a pretty good chance I was wrong about it, while the idea that they could be wrong seems to be a revelation to the two people quoted above. I am not going to implode over this.
Posted by Pete at February 1, 2005 03:11 PM
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