GOP: Pre-emptive war GOOD; pre-emptive emergency management BAD.

[barbaraann]

Web Exclusive | Charles Krauthammer
Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine
History has begun to speak, and it says that America made the right decision to invade Iraq
Posted Monday, Mar. 07, 2005


Jon Stewart, the sage of Comedy Central, is one of the few to be honest about it. "What if Bush ... has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view will not sustain itself and I may ... implode." Daniel Schorr, another critic of the Bush foreign policy, ventured, a bit more grudgingly, that Bush "may have had it right."

Right on what? That America, using power harnessed to democratic ideals, could begin a transformation of the Arab world from endless tyranny and intolerance to decent governance and democratization. Two years ago, shortly before the invasion of Iraq, I argued in these pages that forcefully deposing Saddam Hussein was, more than anything, about America "coming ashore" to effect a "pan-Arab reformation"--a dangerous, "risky and, yes, arrogant" but necessary attempt to change the very culture of the Middle East, to open its doors to democracy and modernity.
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/krauthammer/article/0,9565,1035052,00.html

Hurricane mitigation is different:
http://www.pamspaulding.com/weblog/2005/08/bush-fema-cuts-could-add-misery-to.html

[intheflow]

1. AKA: Stay the Cours in Iraq, Cut and Run in NOLA.

:cry:

[barbaraann]

2. Yes.

well said.