12-13-2008, 03:37 PM
Dennis S wrote:
"His arguments are succinctly and clearly explained in 530 pages ..."
Succinctly? 530 pages?
I haven't read the book but I'll bet I can put it succinctly. Feith: We might have made some mistakes in our implementation (it is all very complicated, you know, so some mistakes were inevitable) but we were right in principle.
The admission of "possibly having made some mistakes" will be taken by conservatives as a sign of objectivity - basically ignoring the fact that he was wrong on a great many of the larger aspects of the situation; e.g., that Iraq was the central front in the conflict with international terrorists. But his rationalizations will help conservatives keep alive the illusion that they pursued what was fundamentally the right approach even if the implementation was "less than perfect".