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November 23rd, 2005

The Incompetence Dodge: Princeton’s Exhibit A

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.

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