Tuesday, April 8, 2003
Preemptive Peace (washingtonpost.com)
Read Harold Meyerson's piece today for everything not to think about post-war Iraq. Meyerson laments that Defense may be slam-dunking the old hands in the State Department (Y'know, the ex-Ambassadors who actually "speak Arabic?"), keeping out a larger UN roll, and too-quickly bringing in Iraqi's of their own to kick-start things. These are bad things?
He also excoriates the Democrats, seemingly for failing to perform a suicide attack on the Administration's policies.
Here's a real beauty quote:
[...]Indeed, the question of postwar Iraq is one on which two sometimes conflicting Democratic tendencies -- the anti-imperialism of the Vietnam '60s and the nation-building of the Clinton '90s -- can be reconciled. Democrats can and should support generous financial aid for Iraqi reconstruction, even as they can and should support a postwar Iraq administered by the legitimate authority of the United Nations.[...]
Oh great, we provide the cash, then step aside and let the UN run things. Now there's a great idea.
