“Now is not the time for the president to dig in to a neutral posture,” Paul Wolfowitz wrote last week in the Washington Post. “It is time to change course.”
Oh, swell. Now he wants to change course.
Mind you, as an architect of the Iraq War, it’s not like Mr. Wolfowitz’s track record on advice for the Middle East is terribly dazzling.
His opinion here is not terribly surprising, though. The neocon wing of the Republican Party has rarely found a war it doesn’t love to start (finishing, optional), most especially if they themselves don’t have to risk fighting it. And now, it seems like most conservative Republicans have their trigger finger itching to start yet another Middle East war.
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Neocons Salivate Over the Chance for Another Middle East War
Robert J. Ellisberg | The Huffington Post, June 26, 2009
“Now is not the time for the president to dig in to a neutral posture,” Paul Wolfowitz wrote last week in the Washington Post. “It is time to change course.”
Oh, swell. Now he wants to change course.
Mind you, as an architect of the Iraq War, it’s not like Mr. Wolfowitz’s track record on advice for the Middle East is terribly dazzling.
His opinion here is not terribly surprising, though. The neocon wing of the Republican Party has rarely found a war it doesn’t love to start (finishing, optional), most especially if they themselves don’t have to risk fighting it. And now, it seems like most conservative Republicans have their trigger finger itching to start yet another Middle East war.
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