And That Worked Out Great!
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Shorter Verbatim Rick Moran [@ Edroso, so you can get out of the boat]: “Some of these young intellectuals will be mugged by reality and wake up to the truth. It happened here after 9/11. PJ Media’s Roger L. Simon was one such leftist whose eyes were opened on 9/11. Christopher Hitchens was another.”
If there’s any intellectual giant whose wisdom should guide us as we confront ISIS, surely the man who compelled Pauline Kael to retire should be near the top of the list.
Anyway, I’m sure everyone remembers when, with the enthusiastic support of people like Simon and Hitchens, the Bush administration razed Iraq, and reasonably assumed that Ahmed Chalabi and some Heritage Foundation interns could construct a stable liberal democracy ex nihlio in its place. If I recall correctly, this worked extremely well, and certainly did not create a stateless vacuum in which particularly vicious and atavistic terrorists could seize territory and launch attacks on other countries. So I’m sure if we try it again it will work out just great. Or at least it will as long as the president says the phrase “radical Islam” a lot. War cannot fail; it can only be stabbed in the back.