We Told You So
Doves resist every urge to say “I told you so” regarding Iraq, presumably because once we’ve fucked up it’s only politically proper to deal with the horrible problem at hand, not to point out how problems can be avoided wholesale. This ensures that we never learn from history. We chronically fail, but prefer to do so in a united, forward-looking fashion. Nice.
The semantics of Fucking Up Big Time start to get ridiculous. There is now conjecture over whether Iraq could possibly fall into civil war. To start off, war ain’t civil, but that’s been remarked on before. The real joke is to assert that Iraq isn’t in a civil war already. There is no metric on “how many casualties per day” from national in-fighting defines a civil war. And if there was such a metric, Iraq would likely gallop through the qualifying round by more than a length.
Still:
Civil war in Iraq possible, generals say - Politics - MSNBC.com
Admitting civil war would look bad. It would look terrible in fact, since our Big Bad Army has been in there to save the day for years now. Wait, check that: there was no day to save before our invasion. There was no war, civil or otherwise, nor was there any WMD stockpile.
Much doubt surfaced worldwide over the wisdom of invading Iraq. In the case of war and loads of people dying, hawks, when in doubt, leave it out. We told you so.
on August 11th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Terrorism is up world wide. Now I can’t even fly with a nalgene full of H20. Things really seem to be looking up.