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phony indignation
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Originally posted by bilmore
Someone showed me their USA Today copy, which says that the panel has criticised Bush and Clinton for sticking too long to "failed diplomacy", and not moving to "more effective military solutions".
If this is a fair reading of what the panel said, it sounds . . . naive and off-base. As your quote shows, Clinton got roundly jumped every time he tried the military option, and, well, can you imagine now that the criticism of Bush has moved to, he wasn't unilateral and warlike enough?
Hindsight is fairly useless, but so much fun.
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Yeah, I don't recall anyone agitating to invade Afghanistan before mid-September of 2001. And we needed Pakistan's cooperation to get there, and couldn't have gotten that until 9/11 changed things.
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