timberlandko wrote:Peace is not yet in hand, and itself poses great challenge. Still, it doesn't look good for the War Critics.
If you have been reading the same War Critics I have, I don't see why.
Most critics of this war have criticized and opposed it for the motivations behind it; the unilateralist, 'bully-like' way it was arrived at; the disproportionate damage it did to international legality and co-operation, and to America's standing among both allies and Arab sceptics; and, in consequence, its potential to increase, rather than decrease, terrorism.
All of these criticisms would still stand even if victory was achieved this very day.
Most all the critics of this war I've read on this forum have also noted from the start that they expect the US to win eventually, of course, considering its overwhelming power. What many did argue was that it wasnt going to be the cakewalk Perle predicted; that the Americans werent really going to be spontaneously greeted with flags and flowers only. That argument's been already proven.
As for wanting the US to win asap, now that it did start this war, or to pull out asap instead, war critics here have been divided, but with a majority leaning to the first (see the thread on 'Withdraw from Iraq?'). That majority will be relieved, rather than worried about "looking bad", to see that some of their more angry fears about the "no cakewalk" experience extending into a new Vietnam might just turn out to go unrealised.
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c.i.
