The Wall Street Journal's Revisionist History

[maha]

This is from today's Wall Street Journal:

The polls show that most Americans understand the coming burden and still favor war; after 9/11 they realize the dangers of ignoring foreign threats. About U.S. elites there are greater doubts. Our liberal pundits and politicians are fickle interventionists; many of them signed on early to topple Saddam but have lately been offering caveats and cavils as D-Day approaches. Will they run for moral cover if the going gets tough, as they did in Vietnam?

So we wrote March 18 in describing the "largest risk" of war with Iraq. Seven months later, this question remains the largest imponderable in calculating the odds of American victory. Just as the going gets rough in Iraq, some of our elites are losing their nerve.

This of course is precisely the goal of the terrorists in Iraq who this week began their Ramadan offensive. Their car bombs and rocket attacks are destructive and terrifying but not a serious military threat. The guerrilla insurgency remains leaderless, with no great power support and largely confined to the Sunni Triangle surrounding Baghdad. The overwhelming majority of Iraqis continue to support the U.S. presence, and progress continues toward Iraqi self-rule. In short, Iraq is not in "chaos" or on the verge of a popular uprising, and this anti-guerrilla war is clearly winnable.

But the Baathist die-hards know that they do not have to win in Iraq; they merely have to prevail in Washington. So like the Tet offensive of 1968 and the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut in 1983, their terror campaign is intended to shake American resolve.

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[el_gato]

1. so i guess we would still be in Nam if it were up to them

fucking pathetic

[trotsky]

2. What do the WSJ editors care?

It's not their sons or daughters that will have to die in this war.

And where the hell does this "elite" thing come from? Dubya came from a moneyed family, got into schools because of his daddy, never had to work a day in his life, and yet we're the "elites"?

Interesting that they refer to the 1983 Beirut bombing, that's a real black mark on Saint Reagan's legacy - like they are accusing the "liberal elites" of doing now, Reagan tucked his tail and ran, bombing poor Grenada to get it off the front pages.

[maha]

3. "Elites" cracks me up, too.

Do you get much more elite than being on the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal?

[pretzel4gore]

4. the WSJ Editorial board are certified criminals and

traitors who need trial and execution if anything like justice is to exist in USA......
their own words/actions convict them.