To the “neocons,” the risk was worth the reward, particularly in light of the 911 attacks, which only reinforced how seriously we need to take the threats of jihadists who have declared war on the US.
Others, however, long for the status quo — and into that vacuum have stepped “progressives,” acting very much like Colin Powell, and sounding very much like Bush pre-911: opposed to nation building, advocating foreign policy realism, and leaving it to the Other to fend for himself.
How quickly they forgot Iraqi Regime Change and the Clinton airstrikes, based, remember, on sketchy reports about chemical precursors in the soil.
For these reasons, we “wingnuts” look upon today’s left as either cynical and insincere, or else suffering from the kind of mass delusion and collective political amnesia that we can’t comprehend — especially because we are able to show them their own words from a half decade ago, when the cause seemed quite just
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