Dave Smith > scripsit in
:

> What deteriorating situation in Iraq are you referring to? It
> never was good. The administration is just a little slow at
> understanding what their friends and allies were telling them when
> they lied about the WMDs to give themselves an excuse to invade.
> They should have finished the job in Afghanistan before starting a
> bigger conflict in Iraq.

Except that no one will ever "finish the job" in Afghanistan. History
is generally a harsh mistress but in this case it should have been
given a large club to castigate the buffoons who think they can control
Afghanistan.

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith