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Entry: "Never Again" Nation Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/never_again_nation#23729 Post contents: I supported the war in Iraq at one time with reservations, not least the pollyanish rhetoric about democracy. I thought, though, on balance it was good to disarm a would-be nuclear power that seemed willing to give such weapons to al Qaeda or a similar organization. Once Iraq was defanged, we should have left. And since we didn't leave, and since it's now apparent the neoconservatives and Bush were hell bent on the Potemkin Village rhetoric that I thought at the time was just bluster, I don't believe we should have went. It's hard to say what I would have said at the time if I believed as everyone did that they had WMD but if I also knew we'd be tooling around aimlessly in the desert. I share the views of other hawkish paleocons like John Derbyshire and Lawrence Auster on this particular. I have been very critical of the war since late 2004, have been particularly critical of the surge, and have been disappointed by the mainstream right's Pavlovian response to "good news" in Iraq, as if somehow a few painted schools and functioning Iraqi Army platoons could sort out the huge mess at a strategic level. Anyway, I'll write more on this soon. Sent at: 2008 08 08