From WSJopinion: Americans were promised an Iraq war that would be a cakewalk. This cloud castle of fictions did incalculable damage to the bonds of trust between Americans and their leaders, writes gerardtbaker.
Smoke billows from a presidential palace compound during air strikes in Baghdad, Iraq, March 21, 2003.Some of those who supported the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago this week are making the best defense they can of what the rest of us long ago concluded was probably the most flawed decision in American foreign policy since the founding of the republic.It was messy and poorly executed, true, but Iraq is better off now than it was then, and more important, it no longer poses a threat to the U.S.
Respectfully, I dissent. For one thing, to defend the war on the grounds that Iraq is no threat is premised on an obvious fallacy—that invasion was necessary to ensure this outcome. We know that this wasn’t true. Saddam Hussein had been in his United Nations inspections cage for more than a decade already in 2003. After the 9/11 attacks, the scrutiny and containment was only getting tighter.
It is astonishingly blithe to say of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died in the internecine strife that took place under the supervision of the U.S. that they might have died in any case. What kind of vacuum of conscience does it take to balance a known historical tragedy against a hypothetical one and conclude that they have equal moral weight?
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