Anne Applebaum in WaPo reckons that she is a realist among naïve ideologues inside the Beltway. In sum, there’s no solution to the debacle in Iraq! None. Anything the US does might result in disaster. Withdrawal seems out of the question:
“No troops? Though deeply appealing to the "we told you so" crowd, this plan is clothed in the greatest degree of hypocrisy. How many of the people who clamor for intervention in Darfur will also be clamoring to rush back into Iraq when full-scale ethnic cleansing starts taking place? How many will take responsibility for the victims of genocide? I'm not saying there will be such a catastrophe, but there could be: Mass ethnic murders have certainly been carried out in Iraq before. Other possibilities include the creation of an Iranian puppet state or an al-Qaeda outlaw state; or there might merely be a regional war involving, say, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, just for starters, and maybe Israel and the Gaza Strip as well. Perhaps these things would never have happened if we hadn't gone there in the first place -- but if we leave, we'll be morally responsible.”
Who is this “we” of whom you speak, Anne? I’m not morally responsible. I never advocated this war or apologized for it or supported it except for tax payments made under duress. Those who are morally responsible are the politicians and their propagandists and beneficiaries who prosecuted, advocated and profited from this war. Let them be called to account.
This editorial carries no useful information other than serving as a warning that the name of Anne Applebaum in a by line of a piece signifies “Don’t bother to read me.”
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Non-interventionists aren't hypocritical at all. We don't want to go into Darfur either.
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