Wolcott: "Color Him Gone" (Buckley and other cons on Iraq)

[Inland]

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Color Him Gone
Posted by James Wolcott

First, William F. Buckley declares the mission in Iraq a failure, and now another conservative luminary at NRO straps on a parachute, waves sayonara, and says, Include me out.

"WHAT IT TAKES

(edit from Derbyshire article to comply with forum rules)

"The question is not 'are we willing to do whatever it takes to win?' The question is: WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF WHAT WE ARE WILLING TO DO, can we win? My answer, based on my best judgment as to what the American people are willing to contemplate doing, and such knowledge as I have of Iraq, and of human affairs in general, is: No, we can't.

"Of course different opinions are possible. I'm paid to offer mine, though, and there it is."


(Wolcott adds) Oh, it was so much easier for Victor Davis Hanson when he had only us weenies, traitors, appeasers, naive dupes, George Clooney fans, and gibbering Bush Derangement outpatients to deride and cast beneath the dust of his Humvee chariot. But now even the coalition of the willing at NRO (his home team!) is being rocked by the loss of high-profile defectors, forcing Cliff May to treble the sunshine he blows out of his ass to meet production quotas. Hanson may yet wind up at Pajamas Media, where delusions die hard.

[Montauk6]

1. TOO LATE!!!

No, seriously, that's how I feel with the Shrubbies trying to sneak away from their Boy King. He's no less wrong now than he was when all critics were smeared as leftist, Move-On, tinfoil kooks.

[Inland]

2. Too late for the country, our dead and Iraq.

Of course, these neocons and cons couldn't see the danger and helped Bush ignore everyone who did.

Coming around now doesn't take away from that fact.

[Montauk6]

3. Exactly, Inland, whether it's 2 dead or 2,000

The slayings were committed in the name of a, IMHO, criminal operation.