[Dean's World] Dave Price: Victor Hanson Nails It

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Posted by Dave Price:
Victor Hanson Nails It
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1172773450.shtml


   As [1]only he can:

     Given all of this country's past wars involving intelligence
     failures, tactical and strategic blunders, congressional fights and
     popular anger at the president, Iraq and the rising furor over it
     are hardly unusual.
     ...
     Since World War II, our intelligence agencies failed utterly to
     foresee the Chinese invasion of Korea, the Yom Kippur War, the fall
     of the Shah of Iran, the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the fall
     of the Berlin Wall, the sudden spread of Islamic fundamentalism,
     the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Cambodian and Rwandan holocausts,
     and the acquisition of the bomb by Pakistan and North Korea.
     ...
     The high-stakes war to stabilize the fragile democracy in Iraq is a
     serious, costly and controversial business. But so have been most
     conflicts in American history. We need a little more humility and
     knowledge of our past - and a lot less hysteria, name-calling and
     obsession with our present selves.

   Truer, more relevant words were never rendered on a screen. I really
   can't add much to this, except to say: please, read the whole thing.

References

   1. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/iraq_war_recalls_past_us_confl.html