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2006-12-31 Iraq

A proud day for the US and a lesson for all tyrants

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Posted by ryuge 2006-12-31 06:29|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For all his merits, Peters exhibits one of the worst flaws of current punditry (and analysis in general) - his inability to acknowledge certain key facts or truths without qualifying the acknowledgement with assertions of very dubious or at least premature criticisms. "For all of its later errors in Iraq ..... blah blah blah".

He also stupidly adopts the "chaos" meme. Ralph oughta visit, oh, about 75% of the country and see how chaotic it seems.

Peters has long been clear-eyed about some of the key APPARENT mistakes in Iraq - though he seems to have averted his eyes from the scary and unpleasant fact that these errors were not just embraced by the uniformed military but mostly the fervently held views of CENTCOM and MNF-I, shared by their civilian overlords - but he couldn't write even just one little column in which he focused on his main point.

His main point is important, and correct - and unlikely to be widely echoed. Whatever the flaws of his surrounding verbiage .....

Posted by Verlaine 2006-12-31 12:53|| 2006-12-31 12:53|| Front Page Top

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