Paul Krugman wrote an editorial a week ago on the eve of Memorial Day, quoting President Bush:
"In this place where valor sleeps, we are reminded why America has always gone to war reluctantly, because we know the costs of war."
That was on Memorial Day 2006, and here we are beginning the summer of '07 with no appreciable improvement in the Iraq War. When will this end?
When our president declared the beginning of our "War on Terror," he said that it wouldn't end "until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated." Krugman has it exactly right when he writes that "people should have realized that he was going to use the terrorist attack to justify anything and everything."
Krugman goes on to suggest ways we should have reacted in the past and how we should respond to what's going on now:
When Bush used his first post-attack State of the Union to denounce an "axis of evil" consisting of three countries that had nothing to do either with 9/11 or with each other, alarm bells should have gone off.When Rudy Giuliani says that Iran, which had nothing to do with 9/11, is part of a "movement" that "has already displayed more aggressive tendencies by coming here and killing us," he should be treated as a lunatic.
When Mitt Romney says that a coalition of "Shia and Sunni and Hezbollah and Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda" wants to "bring down the West," he should be ridiculed for his ignorance.
And when John McCain says that Osama, who isn’t in Iraq, will "follow us home" if we leave, he should be laughed at.
Yes, yes, and YES!
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