i told you so
Feb. 25th, 2006 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pocket1_pitawhen the iraq war started i was an active WC member. We had a special forum set up for discussion on the Iraq war. I feel like I was much more naive when the Iraq war started. It was beyond my comprehension how bad it could get. And Colin Powell scared me. I believed him. I thought that at least Colin must know what he was talking about. Someone around here has to be competent. Pita said when the war started - that they definitley had reasons to go to war in iraq, but almost certainly they weren't the reasons we were being told. I told Pita he was paranoid.
Now it's almost 3 years since we went to Iraq, and it's been a complete disaster from start to finish. The miniscule good is dwarfed by the enormous bad. We invaded a sovereign country on trumped up charges and totally F'ed up their country. And their country wasn't even that great to begin with - now it's even worse. Every single thing that I said would happen in this war has happened. Remember about 9 mos ago when everyone kept saying that "Iraq was reaching a turning point" and that ifwe didn't manage to turn the tide, we were going to be embroiled in a messy civil war? well, here we are. A trillion US dollars from the pockets of my grandchildren owed to China, and 100,000 Iraqis dead, most of them civilians.
I have been told I was a socialist, a defeatist, a radical and an idiot for what in retrospect were completely rational things to say that turned out to be right. How many more things do we have to be right about before they admit we were right all along? This war was a terrible idea, incompetently executed and fraudulently approved. In fact, i would call this a clear example of the failure of an ideology once put into practice - what I was saying the other day about how one has a moral responsibility to re-evaluate ideology in light of new information. Neoconservatism is a bad idea. I think anyone who bought that ideology has a moral responsibility to think again.
Now it's almost 3 years since we went to Iraq, and it's been a complete disaster from start to finish. The miniscule good is dwarfed by the enormous bad. We invaded a sovereign country on trumped up charges and totally F'ed up their country. And their country wasn't even that great to begin with - now it's even worse. Every single thing that I said would happen in this war has happened. Remember about 9 mos ago when everyone kept saying that "Iraq was reaching a turning point" and that ifwe didn't manage to turn the tide, we were going to be embroiled in a messy civil war? well, here we are. A trillion US dollars from the pockets of my grandchildren owed to China, and 100,000 Iraqis dead, most of them civilians.
I have been told I was a socialist, a defeatist, a radical and an idiot for what in retrospect were completely rational things to say that turned out to be right. How many more things do we have to be right about before they admit we were right all along? This war was a terrible idea, incompetently executed and fraudulently approved. In fact, i would call this a clear example of the failure of an ideology once put into practice - what I was saying the other day about how one has a moral responsibility to re-evaluate ideology in light of new information. Neoconservatism is a bad idea. I think anyone who bought that ideology has a moral responsibility to think again.
