War, Iraq and Terrorism

Avedon Carol has a post on the Iraq conflict today that is worth a read. She begins with this:

Something I don't think right-wingers can possibly understand is that focusing on the politics rather than the reality of the war is a form of pain-relief.

I think that there may be some truth in this but I think often, especially in this administration, they simply don't give a rat's ass, after all it not them or their families that are being maimed and killed and there is the potential to make lots of money and control even more. It is probably more accurate in describing the ordinary citizens who go along with wars rather than the right wing hawks who push aggresion.

She perfectly sums up my feelings about the Iraq war.

I was always against the invasion for a number of reasons, but one was the knowledge that to make this project at all worthwhile, there were many things that needed to be done that this administration would not do. Yet even I had no idea just how badly they would screw the whole thing up. It didn't have to be this way.

Indeed, I never in my wildest dreams nightmares imagined how badly they would screw it up.

She continues with a discussion of Robert Pape's thoughts on terrorism which we covered a couple of weeks ago here. Go check out the entire post, it's worth a read.