How the Bush people ignored the likely reality of post-Hussein Iraq

For the first time ever, I’ve read an E.J. Dionne column which wasn’t immediately dismissible as the work of a small-minded, left-wing partisan, and with which I agreed. Dionne looks at the evidence of the fundamental cause of our mess in Iraq: the administration’s unthinking assumptions, prior to the war, that Iraq would immediately move toward democratic stability following the toppling of Saddam Hussein, and that there would be no serious anti-U.S. resistance there once Hussein was gone. Meanwhile, the L-dotters unanimously attack Dionne as a liberal know-nothing and panty-waist. Not one of them responds to what he actually says.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 21, 2005 10:44 AM | Send