The disaster of failed policy
LA Times: Editorial: ‘Bush’s doctrine of preemption undermines President John Quincy Adams’ understanding that the United States “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy”’ (paraphrased). [→ READ ]
The Sunday editorial page of the LA Times addresses the folly and tragedy of The Bush Doctrine:
The Iraq war was intended as a monument to his new Bush Doctrine, which also posited that the U.S. would take what help was available from allies but would not be held back by them. It now stands as a monument to folly. …
It will take years for widely felt hostility to ebb, in Iraq and other countries. The consequences of arrogance, accompanied by certitude that the world’s most powerful military can cure all ills, should be burned into Americans’ memory banks.
Preemption is a failed doctrine. Forcibly changing the regime of an enemy that posed no imminent threat has led to disaster. The U.S. needs better intelligence before it acts in the future. It needs to listen to friendly nations. It needs humility.
Indeed. The Bush Doctrine of preemption always was and ever shall be the height of destructive false statemanship. IMO no one involved with its declaration or its attempted execution in Iraq should ever be allowed to hold public office again.
[via Digby]
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