David Corn offers some important talking points about the War in Iraq. Boy, did we botch that one up. A good case can be made that our objectives, above and beyond finding those Weapons of Mass Destruction Saddam didn't have, were never achievable…and I'm not sure which of these two things we should be angrier about…
- We went to war to accomplish things that were not possible or…
- We went to war to accomplish things which were possible but we managed the war so poorly that we couldn't.
Either one gets you to the same place with the same loss of American troops and limbs and resources but they're different kinds of incompetence. And we should be at least as angry over that as some Republicans are over Michelle Obama advocating that fat kids could stand to eat less.
I'm also not sure if we should be angrier at those who championed this war or those who probably knew it was a bad idea and went along with it so as not to be accused of being soft on terror, squishy or weak on defense.