Time to hold the US generals accountable for Afg. and Iraq

[davidbfpo]

Ken,

I refrained from citing Ms Slaughter, mainly as her views on R2P have been robustly challenged here. Secondly however well-written Rothkopf was I needed the wider US context to judge his views and SWC has done that.

After reading two scholarly UK authored articles on Iraq today, as posted on the Iraq thread, I did wonder if Americans will one day ask why the sacrifice to end with this?

[Ken White]

...I did wonder if Americans will one day ask why the sacrifice to end with this?

Many asked that in 2002, more do so now. Probably even more will in the future.

Conversely, many had no questions or qualms in 2002, more have none today. I think most though, then and now, had and have doubts and questions. Most to whom I've talked are pretty well convinced it's too early to make a valid assessment and that most 'assessments' one reads today are ideologically tainted and tilt to one side or the other...

[Fuchs]

I doubt that it'll have much of a lasting impact, though.

[Ken White]

I doubt that it'll have much of a lasting impact, though.

We'll have to wait until about 2030 to get a decent idea.