This morning, implementing their new "fair and balanced" policy, The New York Whines publishes another oops-ed piece detailing Paul Krugman's adventures in the Quagmire.
Is there any point,now that November's election is behind us, in revisiting the history of the Iraq war?
Wait for it.
Yes: any path out of the quagmire will be blocked by people who call their opponents weak on national security.
Following which, he pulls out a Stolen Classified Document to make a facetious case to again deny the Iraq War Resolution and pave the way for his assertion that the administration has made the country nearly helpless to real threats such as North Korea and Iran. And then he delivers the crusher.
At this point, the echoes of Viet Nam are unmistakeable. Reports from the recent offensive near the Syrian border sound just like those from a 1960's search-and destroy mission, body count and all. Stories filed by reporters actually with the troops suggest that the insurgents, forewarned, mostly melted away, accepting battle only where and when they chose.
Forewarned? By whom? Anybody seen Peter Arnett lately? And lastly, this.
And nobody wants to be accused, by an administrtion always ready to impugn other people's patriotism, of stabbing the troops in the back.
It goes on and I am sorry to spread this stain any further, so if you absolutely must have every single word, you know where to find it.
Appropriately enough, on the op-op-ed page, the Times has an article entitled The Name of the Rat.
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