Friday, March 17, 2006
I said move those goalposts. Now.
Some wise heads in the blog-world have come to inform us that we simply won't know whether our adventure in the Levant will be the stunning success it is destined to be until we're, well, dead:
Yes, we can only guess. I wonder why someone would take that perspective?
In truth, we likely won't know whether the Iraq war was a success or a failure, a good idea or a bad idea, for another twenty or thirty years, when the consequences of the effort not only in Iraq, but throughout the region, become clear. For now, we can only guess.
Yes, we can only guess. I wonder why someone would take that perspective?