Wednesday, April 13, 2005
SF Alpha Geek Gets It.
Whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or not, it was a threat. It was a key player in destabilizing the ME, it provided funding to terrorist organizations, and it required constant diplomatic, economic and military attention to keep it under control. Fighting AQ while Iraq was part of the landscape was like trying to tame a lion with a hungry tiger in the cage.
And we could certainly justify going in there under almost any framework you wanted to choose, from Augustine and Aquinas's "just war" theory, to the casus belli of classical interpretations of international law. I think that a lot of the angst and whining emerging from the political classes over the Iraq invasion comes from Bush's emphasis of a more muscular "some people just need killin' " justification for the campaign over emphasizing the more traditional reasons for going to war. On the other hand, that's one of the reasons I admire the man.
His take on the attitude of the officer corps toward the war pretty much matches mine. Yes, there is a broad spectrum of political thought in the officer corps. But even the Democrats tend to be pretty hawkish on Iraq, in my own little world, even as they roll their eyes at Bush's fiscal policies.
Read the whole thing here.
Splash, out
Jason
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