From Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers:
How To Lose This War
Victor Davis Hanson
As gas prices rise at home, scream that the war abroad was fought to steal Iraqi oil and get American hands on cheap petroleum. Talk about American imperialism and hegemony while the United States spends billions of dollars to implant democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq. Claim that the United States has destabilized the Middle East as its troops leave Saudi Arabia, Libya gives up its WMD arsenal, Iran suddenly worries about UN inspections, and Pakistan begins to reveal its former Islamic felonies.
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What is strange about this continuous hysteria is that we cannot even keep track of its endless cycles. Who knows where Paul O’Neil is now, and is Richard Clarke even on Comedy Central any more? Do we remember the 48-hour conundrum over the embalming of the Hussein boys? Is the 9-11 commission still really the key event of the year? Does anyone care about whom Teddy Kennedy is screaming this week?
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