My Favorite Con
Andrew Sullivan nails it again with his response to a reader who paints the Iraq War as a Western film in which the US is sheriff and needed to go into the Mideast "to knock heads," the risk being what if the sheriff gets his as kicked?
And it's why the architect of this strategy is now sounding more and more hysterical. When Dick Cheney looks weak, when he has made the U.S. look weak, we are in trouble. Weakness invites attack. If and when the next attack comes, Cheney's failed strategy will be partly responsible. He hasn't just undermined the soft power of the U.S. He has deeply undermined American hard power.
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