Being right sucks
Depressing news in this morning's Post - 1300 iraqis killed, most executed, since Wednesday's bombing of the Askariya shrine. I don't think I can put it any better than Jake Young:
What the hell did we think was going to happen?
... What strikes me on some reflection is that my frustration stems from having some idea, before the war, that its costs in human life would be intolerably high. Yet initially people within the administration didn't argue that substantial losses should be tolerated in exchange for democracy, they argued that the loss would not be substantial, that there would be easy victory followed by peace. Now that things have gone bad, the pro-war camp argues that we ought stay until victory is achieved; but couldn't we have avoided the whole mess if we'd all agreed to talk in realistic terms in the first place?
What the hell did we think was going to happen?
... What strikes me on some reflection is that my frustration stems from having some idea, before the war, that its costs in human life would be intolerably high. Yet initially people within the administration didn't argue that substantial losses should be tolerated in exchange for democracy, they argued that the loss would not be substantial, that there would be easy victory followed by peace. Now that things have gone bad, the pro-war camp argues that we ought stay until victory is achieved; but couldn't we have avoided the whole mess if we'd all agreed to talk in realistic terms in the first place?
posted by onlooker at 10:53 AM
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