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Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
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Friedman column in NYT "removing Saddam Hussein and helping Iraq replace his regime with a decent, accountable government that can serve as a model in the Middle East is worth doing - not because Iraq threatens us with its weapons, but because we are threatened by a collection of failing Arab-Muslim states, which churn out way too many young people who feel humiliated, voiceless and left behind. We have a real interest in partnering with them for change. "...such a preventive war is so unprecedented and mammoth a task - taking over an entire country from a standing start and rebuilding it - that it had to be done with maximum U.N legitimacy and with as many allies as possible." "But wars are fought for political ends. Defeating Saddam is necessary but not sufficient to achieve those ends, which are a more progressive Iraq and a world with fewer terrorists and terrorist suppliers dedicated to destroying the U.S., so Americans will feel safer at home and abroad. We cannot achieve the latter without the former. Which means we must bear any burden and pay any price to make Iraq into the sort of state that fair-minded people across the world will see and say: "You did good. You lived up to America's promise."
"To maximize our chances of doing that, we need to patch things up with the world. ... More than 50 years ago America won a war against European fascism, which it followed up with a Marshall Plan and nation-building, both a handout and a hand up - in a way that made Americans welcome across the world. Today is a D-Day for our generation. May our leaders have the wisdom of their predecessors from the Greatest Generation." We have to live with this now, pray we'll follow through on the peace side... |
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News.com: Reuters to stream video of Iraq conflict. Stay up on the war at work... Comments 1:42:31 PM 
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"Doc" has a thoughtful take on the war. An even lesser evil would have been a political or diplomatic solution - but I don't think the current US administration has a well-thought-out foreign policy, much less the skills to pull it off. It will be a miracle if no one is killed in this war: the long-suffering Iraqui people are going to suffer more, not less, at least in the short term... Comments 1:25:51 PM
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Wall Street Journal: "Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz held a Baghdad press conference Wednesday evening to quash earlier reports that he had defected in northern Iraq". Guess Prof. Farber had it right... Comments 12:55:52 PM
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The War: The Independent: US moves into DMZ, Iraq fires first shots. New York Times: first Iraqui defections. CNN reports US air strikes. debka.com (which Dave Farber says has a history of inaccurate reporting) says that Iraqui Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz has defected along with another senior Iraqui government official, and also reports that U.S. warplanes from the Abraham Lincoln are bombing targets in Iraq. I won't be keeping this up... I hope and pray that as many lives as possible, on both sides, will be spared. Comments 12:32:13 PM
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Salon: "Career diplomat John Brady Kiesling talks about his resignation over U.S. policy in Iraq, and a president not intellectually equipped' to understand worldwide opposition to the war." OK, we have to back our troops, and I do: but I still feel compelled to look at what went wrong here. The use of violence always represents a failure of political systems: if we don't find out why, we're doomed to repeat it... Comments 11:52:01 AM
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Updated 4/16/04; 12:27:28 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:27:28 PM
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