Sunday, February 11, 2007
Zbigniew Brzezinski has a roadmap
For the extrication of the US from Our Dear Embattled Leader's Glorious Little Quagmire. It is an excellent plan similar to many presented earlier and in the hands of competent leadership it would probably work. Unfortunately, at the beginning of his Op-Ed, ZB explicitly states why this plan and all the others will end up in the round file.
THE WAR IN IRAQ is a historic strategic and moral calamity undertaken under false assumptions. It is undermining America's global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties, as well as some abuses, are tarnishing America's moral credentials. Driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability.It's a muggs game to think the self supporting circle jerk in the White House will ever say they were wrong.
Yet major strategic decisions in the Bush administration continue to be made within a very narrow circle of individuals — perhaps not more than the fingers on one hand. With the exception of the new Defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, these are the same individuals who have been involved from the start of this misadventure, who made the original decision to go to war in Iraq and who used the original false justifications for going to war. It is human nature to be reluctant to undertake actions that would imply a significant reversal of policy.
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