Re: Hersh on Bush & Iran
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Doug wrote to Marvin:
I also think it’s mistaken to consider the invasion of Iraq an act of “stupidity” so much as of miscalculation
Almost everyone who knew anything about Iraq predicted what would happen if the US invaded, and the Bush admin ignored or fired them. Miscalculation seems too kind a word for that.
Doug
That sounds like revisionism, Doug! Even on LBO-talk, for a long time, those who thought that Washington could and should provide “security” for Iraqis, “reconstruct” Iraq, “prevent” a civil war, etc. were a majority. Look into the archived threads on Iraq from 2003 till at least early 2004.
That’s not relevant at all. The point was that a disastrous outcome to an invasion of Iraq was widely predicted by anyone who knew anything about the country. How to handle the ensuing choas was a separate question.
Doug