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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Iraq Through The Looking Glass. ?Perhaps Obama?s ennui arises from the impo?

By Glenn Reynolds

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Iraq Through The Looking Glass. “Perhaps Obama?s ennui arises from the impossibility of squaring his circle. How could an erstwhile fierce critic of Iraq ? as well as his diplomatic team (e.g., Biden with his loud wish to trisect Iraq, and Hillary Clinton with her ’suspension of disbelief’)?convince us that Iraq was a ‘remarkable chapter’?”

Plus this: “The truth about Iraq is that, for all the tragedy and the loss, the U.S. military performed a miracle. After nearly seven years, a constitutional government endures in that country. It is too often forgotten that all 23 of the writs for war passed by the Congress in 2002 ? from enforcing the Gulf I resolutions and stopping the destruction of the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, to preventing the Iraqi state promotion of terrorism, ending suicide bounties on the West Bank, and stopping Iraq from invading or attacking neighbors or trying to acquire WMD ? were met and satisfied by the U.S. military. It is also too often forgotten that, as a result, Libya gave up its WMD program; Dr. Khan?s nuclear franchise was shut down; Syria left Lebanon; and American troops in Saudi Arabia, put there as protection against Saddam, were withdrawn.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).