Pollack: 30 years from now, Iraq war will be ‘worth it.’

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Pollack: 30 years from now, Iraq war will be ‘worth it.’»

In a Washington Post interview today, long-time Iraq war advocate Kenneth Pollack admits that the “first four years” of the Iraq war “were about as disastrous as I could possibly imagine.” He adds, “I am hard-pressed to find a single major decision where the U.S. didn’t make the worst possible choice.” Yet he goes on to say the war was “worth it”:

Thirty years from now, when historians look back, where are they going to come out? If at the end of the day the U.S. screwed things up for four years and then in the end left Iraq a better place than they found it under Saddam, it may have still been worth it.

Pollack, who was one of the most outspoken supporters of last year’s troop escalation, fervently argued for the original U.S. invasion. In his 2002 book, “The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq,” Pollack pushed the United States to “launch a full-scale invasion, eradicate Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, and rebuild Iraq as a prosperous and stable society — for the good of the United States.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/19/pollack-30-years-from-now-iraq-war-will-be-worth-it/

[islandmkl]

1. pollack can say that now....

because in 30 years none of these war-mongers will be around to see the results...

f*** all of them...

IT'S ABOUT THE WAR!!

[shain from kane]

2. Let's forget Pollack.

[angstlessk]

3. yeah, look at viet nam and cambodia...they are just fine now

hell, bub, time heals ALL fucking wounds assholes, it aint just an old wives tale!

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. time wounds all heels.

:evilgrin:

[shain from kane]

8. And they're in charge of their own natural resources, not subject to the dictates of

another power. I guess that nationalism movement that Ho Chi Minh promoted really worked.

[Winterblues]

4. Worth what?

What the hell is it? Five million Iraqi lives ended or disrupted beyond repair. Thousands and thousand of American lives shattered or ended. Trillions of dollars squandered. Or is he talking about his personal feelings? How could any of this be "worth it"? We were not having any trouble with Iraq what-so-ever. They were a broken nation struggling to take care of their own and we made their problems worse by order of magnitude. What bothers me the most about most Americans is that they never consider the "value" of an Iraqi life....You hear them make comparrisons all the time like "more deaths in Detroit in a year than Iraq". :shrug: I am very ashamed of my country..

[marylanddem]

5. Ted Koppel's son in law - what a piece of shit.

[OwnedByFerrets]

6. How long will it take....

for it to be worth it to the ONE Million Three Hundred Thousand who have died you fucking asshole of a pitiful human being. Fuck you and your rationalization.:mad:

[Wednesdays]

10. Indeed, we should ask him how many lost lives would it take

for it to "not be worth it". My hunch is the number would be pretty close to infinity.

:crazy:

[LynnTheDem]

9. I'll take that bet.

Illegally invading & slaughtering tens- if not hundreds- of thousands of people who'd done nothing whatsofuckingever against us will NEVER be seen as "worth it".


Never.