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jazzfishHow Did I Get It Right?: "[T]here were some reasons to believe that I might make a serious error on the question of the Iraq War. In fact, however, I was barely tempted; for a very long time I could hardly even bring myself to believe that people were seriously proposing something so self-evidently stupid."
I still have trouble believing that myself. From my mostly news-inured perspective in late 2002 and early 2003 it was inconceivable that anyone might think it was a good idea to go to war with a country that posed no threat to us ("WMD" is adequately mocked in the linked post, if indeed there can be adequate mockery for something so patently ridiculous), and whose fifth-rate military was still sufficient to screw up my eighth-grade year a decade ago. I have never, ever, gotten a satisfactory answer for "why are we doing this?" from anyone.
But then, I'm a dirty hippie, and I've been opposed to military intervention in nearly all forms since early September 1990. I mean, I even thought invading Afghanistan in late '01 was a bad call. So what do I know?
I still have trouble believing that myself. From my mostly news-inured perspective in late 2002 and early 2003 it was inconceivable that anyone might think it was a good idea to go to war with a country that posed no threat to us ("WMD" is adequately mocked in the linked post, if indeed there can be adequate mockery for something so patently ridiculous), and whose fifth-rate military was still sufficient to screw up my eighth-grade year a decade ago. I have never, ever, gotten a satisfactory answer for "why are we doing this?" from anyone.
But then, I'm a dirty hippie, and I've been opposed to military intervention in nearly all forms since early September 1990. I mean, I even thought invading Afghanistan in late '01 was a bad call. So what do I know?
