Being Who We Are
by David Brooks
JAN. 30, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/opinion/david-brooks-being-who-we-are.html?comments#permid=13981352
Oh my gosh! Can analysis of the Middle East get any more simple-minded than this. Mr. Brooks (and Sen. McCain) talk as if there was no Afghanistan or Iraq. US military intervention has only served to destabilize that region - it is/was not Assad who destabilized the Middle East, it was the brain-dead Bush/Chaney "axis of evil" nonesense which destroyed countries and killed 10's of thausends of people, and served to focus what is essentially an inner-Islam power battle on the US.
It may have escaped Mr. Brooks, but the US has no "moral authority" left. Our activities in Afghanistan and Iraq in general, and the "enhanced interrogation" and Abu Graib/Guantanamo atrocities should cause Bush, Chaney and their kabal to be extradited to the International Court in Den Hague.
It should also be obvious by now that our huge military power is completely ineffective in dealing with the "asymmetric" conflicts typical of today's world. Anyone who claims we can distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in this region has been asleep at the wheel for almost two decades, notwithstanding the brainless neo-con editorial page of the WSJ.
It may have escaped Mr. Brooks, but the US has no "moral authority" left. Our activities in Afghanistan and Iraq in general, and the "enhanced interrogation" and Abu Graib/Guantanamo atrocities should cause Bush, Chaney and their kabal to be extradited to the International Court in Den Hague.
It should also be obvious by now that our huge military power is completely ineffective in dealing with the "asymmetric" conflicts typical of today's world. Anyone who claims we can distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in this region has been asleep at the wheel for almost two decades, notwithstanding the brainless neo-con editorial page of the WSJ.
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