Politics of War

[Nancy Waterman]

http://www.antiwar.com/lind/lind1.html

What is interesting is that the most powerful man in Washington, Karl Rove, who is President George W. Bush's political advisor, has apparently figured out that the Iraq war is lost (Afghanistan is not on his political radar screen). Further, he has discerned that if Mr. Bush goes into the 2004 election with the war in Iraq still going on, and still going badly, Mr. Bush is toast. The result was the recent decision to turn the government back to the Iraqis sometime next summer.

Will it work? Probably not. Mr. Rove still faces two big fights, and neither will be easy. The first will be a nasty political brawl with the so-called "neo-cons," more accurately neo-Jacobins, who gave us the Iraq War in the first place. Their political future is at stake in Iraq, and if we are defeated, they go straight into history's wastebasket. They are determined to fight down to the last American paratrooper, and once they figure out that Mr. Rove wants out, they will go after him with everything they have.

[bemildred]

1. I love it when they start to eat their own.

Mr. Lind has some novel ideas.
:thumbsup:

[teryang]

2. Doesn't pull any punches, does he?

I think there are quite a few knowledgable conservatives who feel this way. They are a small minority.

Like many of us here on DU, people like this author fall into the "Who cares what you think!" category. They (the junta) don't want to be troubled by the facts. They are selling a product.

[bemildred]

3. Mr. Lind from last Spring with some right on speculations:

http://www.military.com/NewContent?file=Lind_052303

[teryang]

4. Accurate assessment

Some might even argue that chaos in Iraq was planned.

[Martin Eden]

5. Mr. Lind outlines a grim picture

and it's now being colored by events.