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Itsdb |
05/07/07 |
Steve and Cokie Roberts (whose current columns I can never seem to find online) wrote a column on why Bush the elder was right on Iraq and Bush the younger was wrong, and discuss the reasons for American dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq:
Vietnam (and Korea) both reflected a broad national consensus that international communism directly threatened American interests and had to be contained. The rationales for invading Iraq - finding weapons of mass destruction, thwarting terrorists, creating democracy - had some initial appeal in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Those arguments never had the resonance of anticommunism, and support for the war effort plummeted when many of Bush's justifications proved false.
"This lower tolerance for casualties" in Iraq," wrote (Ohio State University Professor John) Mueller, "is largely due to the fact that the American public places far less value on the stakes in Iraq than it did on those in Korea and Vietnam."
My first question is why? Why doesn't the prospect of Islamic terrorism resonate with the American people? It certainly did on 9-11, why did that change - (and I don't buy the "justifications proved false" line as the primary reason)?
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