George F. Will reviews this week's kerfuffle about a leaked war memo by Donald Rumsfeld and examines the "feigned excitement among the very war critics who have hitherto complained that Rumsfeld is incapable of seeing the dark side of things." Rumsfeld himself remains stalwart.
The remarkable souring of political argument in 2003 continues as some Democrats, with their calculated extravagance, insist there was "no plan" for postwar Iraq. But if that were so, how is it that we have gone, in just six months, from zero to 85,000 Iraqis participating in providing security? And what was all that work done with the World Food Program before the war?Posted by Alan at October 24, 2003 11:19 PMCritics correctly fault the mistaken certitude of some of the administration's prewar pronouncements. But critics indicting the administration not merely for mistakes but for meretriciousness would do well to avoid that in their indictments.
via the Houston Chronicle