Posted by
Far_view on Monday, July 14, 2008 9:35:26 PM
Great opinion piece
here by Peter Wehner in which he deconstructs Obama's
July 14 N.Y. Times Op-Ed piece
on Iraq along with his other wrong-headed views on the war. Wehner also
makes a powerful case that justifies the invasion of Iraq in this
paragraph:
"In fact, it is far from clear that Iraq will be
judged a strategic blunder at all, let alone the “greatest strategic
blunder in the recent history of American foreign policy.” It is now
plausible to argue that the Iraq war will lead to a defeat of historic
proportions for al Qaeda. It has already triggered a massive Sunni
Muslim uprising against al Qaeda, a repudiation of violent jihadism
from some of its original architects, and a significant shift within
the Muslim world against the brutal tactics of jihadists. Iraq is also,
right now, the only authentic democracy in the Arab world. And Saddam
Hussein, the most aggressive and destabilizing force in the Middle East
for the last several decades, is dead, and his genocidal regime is now
but an awful, infamous memory."