2008 Woodie Awards
I don’t have the energy to correct yet another Prince columnist in his faulty assumptions about Iraq. This is really getting very tiresome. Suffice to say, there is one big false statement:
“If we were to immediately withdraw from Iraq, the country would collapse.”
No. Read Nir Rosen in The Atlantic this month.
Then, of course, there’s this:
The President’s performance suggests that, though he recognizes the stakes in Iraq, he is incapable of competent follow-through. It was criminally negligent not to plan for unrest after Saddam. This casual disregard for foresight made a difficult exercise in nation-building even more complicated. The President’s handling of this war has been pathetic, which is unfortunate considering we can’t afford to lose.
My emphasis. Caro here is engaging in the now-classic incompetence dodge. Real progressives should know better than to believe him.
The State Department denies it, of course, rather desperately, as folks at MetaFilter point out.
We should make it our policy not to drop material on civilian populations in wartime that melts the skin off children.
I hope that Princeton students are not so cocooned in the infamous ‘bubble‘ that they miss two very important developments in Beltway politics. First, if you haven’t heard about Larry Wilkerson’s comments yesterday at the New America Foundation, dig yourself out of your hole ASAP. Second, I hope you’ll read the Yglesias-Rosenfeld piece in the upcoming issue of the Prospect. I do hope it’ll put a muzzle on uninformed sentiments like this one.
Update: Here’s a transcript.
Sam met Cindy Sheehan, and wrote this afterward. Now at least two people I know have met Sheehan. They report that she is a very sane, sensible, and righteously angry woman. And my god, does she have good reason to be angry.
My friend Todd Hill puts Saturday’s vote in perspective.
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