Neo-conservatives who sold the United States on this disastrous war are starting to utter three small words: "We were wrong."
The Independent UK
Of all the critiques however, the most profound is that of Francis Fukuyama, in his forthcoming book, America at the Crossroads. Its subtitle is 'Democracy, Power and the Neo-Conservative Legacy' - and that legacy, Mr Fukuyama argues, is fatally poisoned.
This is no ordinary thesis, but apostasy on a grand scale. Mr Fukuyama, after all, was the most prominent intellectual who signed the 1997 'Project for the New American Century', the founding manifesto of neo-conservatism drawn up by William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, the house journal of the neo-conservative movement.
"One can't doubt the objective in Iraq has failed ... Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an army of 130,000 Americans. Different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
-William Buckley Jr., Influential conservative columnist and TV pundit.
"By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, a training ground and an operational base, for jihadists, with plenty of American targets to shoot at."
-Francis Fukuyama Author and long-term advocate of toppling Saddam.
"The military campaign and its political aftermath were both passionately debated within the Bush administration. It got the war right and the aftermath wrong We should have understood that we needed Iraqi partners."
-Richard Perle, Arch-warmonger and pivotal Republican Hawk.
"The world has learnt a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis ... than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response is not more spin but a sense of shame and sorrow."
-Andrew Sullivan, Prominent conservative commentator and influential blogger.
"Almost three years after the invasion, it is still not certain whether, or in what sense, Iraq is a nation. And after two elections and a referendum on the constitution, Iraq barely has a government."
-George Will, Right-wing columnist on the Washington Post and TV pundit.
See truthout.org post.
The Independent UK
Of all the critiques however, the most profound is that of Francis Fukuyama, in his forthcoming book, America at the Crossroads. Its subtitle is 'Democracy, Power and the Neo-Conservative Legacy' - and that legacy, Mr Fukuyama argues, is fatally poisoned.
This is no ordinary thesis, but apostasy on a grand scale. Mr Fukuyama, after all, was the most prominent intellectual who signed the 1997 'Project for the New American Century', the founding manifesto of neo-conservatism drawn up by William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, the house journal of the neo-conservative movement.
"One can't doubt the objective in Iraq has failed ... Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an army of 130,000 Americans. Different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
-William Buckley Jr., Influential conservative columnist and TV pundit.
"By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, a training ground and an operational base, for jihadists, with plenty of American targets to shoot at."
-Francis Fukuyama Author and long-term advocate of toppling Saddam.
"The military campaign and its political aftermath were both passionately debated within the Bush administration. It got the war right and the aftermath wrong We should have understood that we needed Iraqi partners."
-Richard Perle, Arch-warmonger and pivotal Republican Hawk.
"The world has learnt a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis ... than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response is not more spin but a sense of shame and sorrow."
-Andrew Sullivan, Prominent conservative commentator and influential blogger.
"Almost three years after the invasion, it is still not certain whether, or in what sense, Iraq is a nation. And after two elections and a referendum on the constitution, Iraq barely has a government."
-George Will, Right-wing columnist on the Washington Post and TV pundit.
See truthout.org post.
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