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January 14, 2007

Every War Has a Silver Lining

I
n an Op-Ed piece today on the Wall Street Journal's website, Edward Luttwak--a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies--made the audacious argument that by completely screwing up the post-war management of Iraq, Bush et al. have actually leveraged America's position in the Middle East by forcing the Sunni countries to align themselves with us because of the rising Shiite threat that is Iran.

So there it is. For all of the problems we now face in the Middle East, one thing we needn't worry about is whether we have allies there. Except for Iran, all the Middle East countries that have done nothing to help stabilize Iraq are with us.

And so are their young people . . . you know, the ones holed up some where planning to blow us up with Iranian- or Korean-made nuclear weapons.

Bush and the likes of Luttwak see things that most of America -- even those privy to the dribs and drabs of classified information, presumably truthful information, shared by this administration -- do not.

I wonder if John McCain is in on this?

Posted by shertaugh at January 14, 2007 1:12 PM

Comments

The perfect argument; premise, argument, and conclusion all equally wrong.
On the other hand, I found out many things that I hadn't realized. For example, who knew that all of those countries that let us have military bases on their territory like Kuwait, UAE, and Qatar weren't really our allies but Egypt was? How could I have failed to realize that the way to capitalize on the fear of Shiite domination in the Sunni Arab world and make them like us was to support Shiite death squads in Iraq? It's all so obvious now.

Posted by: Mojo at January 14, 2007 8:25 PM