I think the Trotsky wing of the Republican Party, aka the neocons, may be move back to the Democrats...for a while at least....
A Dangerous Delusion
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...the rest of the surge rationale: the claim that we needed to secure the Iraqi population so a stable government, one that would be a reliable ally against terror, could emerge. The same argument now is being made about Afghanistan. Have you taken a look at Iraq lately? We went there to topple Saddam; we stayed to build an Islamic “democracy,” and the result is an Iranian satellite. The new Iraq is a sharia state that wants us gone, has denied us basing rights for future military operations, has pressured a weak American president into releasing Iran-backed terrorists....If that’s success, what does failure look like?*
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The idea that we could make the world a better place through democratic revolution was the stuff of ultra-leftist wet dreams...stuff which found a home on the nominal right for some time. Now that Obamanation is running the war machine, folks on the n-right are returning to their anti-nation building Clinton-days...
...sorta...I think the neocons are just changing jerseys for a while and the n-right are playing the part of the Washington Generals for a while...kinda like the used-to-be-anti-war-left did for a while...
But I digress....the idea that we can make the world a better place (and make the USA a safer place) by bombing the shit out of countries until they become democracies is profoundly stupid and delusional. Nice to see the National Review figure this out (after only 8 or so years).
*for the record, Alex has been saying for about 6 years that Iraq is a
Phyrric Victory...so yeah, we've won in Iraq. Yeah us! Can we now retire?