Letters to the Editor

The Dangers of Revisionism: Tom Friedman tries to hide his "very big stick" Re-writing the history of the Iraq War threatens to suppress the vital lessons that should be learned from it. Glenn Greenwald [2008-11-30]

• it was a good war ...

  The war itself was fine and right. Only its execution was flawed. We just need better war managers next time. Much of the palpable establishment excitement over the Obama administration is grounded not in the expectation that he will change this core mentality -- they clearly think, rightly or wrongly, that he won't -- but only that he'll execute and manage it more competently. --- GG explaining the cover story

  The story is the same as with Bill Clinton's war in Europe. The difference is that Clinton hardly got any Americans hurt at all bombing civilians from way up in the sky. We are only going to talk about how Bush's conflict was conducted, not if it was an illegal aggression and a mistake from the get-go.

  If would be nice if some day in the far distant future Americans would hold their own actions to the same standard that they hold the "others" to. Is it possible? Only after the empire falls, as no empire is ever self-reflective.

  -- heru-ur
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