WINNING IN IRAQ: T.M. Lutas is saying “I told you so.”UPDATE: And Lutas isn’t the only one gloating. I think it’s okay to gloat about things that are good for America.
I know it’s tough to grok, but for some of us, the War in Iraq is not primarily a big game of Risk being played against domestic political enemies. This means that if there’s genuinely good news from Iraq, we’re happy too. Apologies if this messes with the schadenfreude.
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1 Glenn Reynolds // Dec 6, 2007 at 8:52 am
Nice to know there are people out there who feel that way, because there seemed to be a lot of gloating among antiwar people that the war was going badly not too long ago. A lot of it showed up in my email, too.
2 Joe Strummer // Dec 6, 2007 at 9:02 am
Jesus Glenn Reynolds is a tool. Where are these “domestic” enemies? The “Democrats”? Christ.
I don’t recall there being gloating. I recall there being a lot of discussion about how people who supported the war were wrong, and are wrong. Maybe Reynolds – a man who spent 2003 lampooning the people who opposed this war and the next 4 hours hurling charges of anti-Americanism – can’t distinguish between arguments the war was bad policy and gloating. But that’s his problem.
Now, what’s the “success” we’ve had? A cessation of violence, in large part because the various neighborhoods have been ethnically segregated by the preceding 18 months of violence, news of which Reynolds pooh-poohed as just anti-American propaganda put out by the NYTimes and, preposterously, TNR.
This only counts as success compared to January of 2007. If Reynolds had told the American people in January of 2003 that THIS would be the state of Iraq in 2007, well I don’t thin anyone would’ve counted 2007 as a success.
Success is “relatively” and, apparently to Reynolds, a weapon to bash domestic political opponents over the head.