How do you like your war, now? Putting the matter far too delicately, the New York Times notes that the war began with the murder of “significant” numbers of innocent people in a series of air strikes against targeted individuals, not one of whom was successfully taken out. The article is here and is further evidence, as if any were needed, that to trust the competence of this administration to carry out this delicate and difficult task—even if one granted them good intentions—was folly indeed.
(Fred Kaplan had this piece back in Demcember 2003)
It’s hard to say which is the best representation of what this war is doing to and has done to this country. Is it the lies that were told to get us into it? Is the fact that we are picking up innocent people off the street and torturing them? Is it that we have suspended the most basic civil liberties in our own country? Is it that the work of professional intelligence agencies has been corrupted? Is it that we have drawn resources away from the fight against Al Qaida which has completely regrouped? Is it that we are creating more terrorists? Is it that more than seven hundred Americans have been killed and thousands have been seriously injured? Is it that thousands of Iraqis have been killed but nobody is keeping an account of the numbers of their deaths?
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