Gene Healy on America’s Drawn Out Iraq Blunder

Now’s not the time to re-litigate the Iraq War, we’re told
— mostly by people whose bright idea it was in the first
place. If we “spend our time debating what happened 11 or 12 years
ago,” says former Vice President Dick Cheney, we’re “missing
the boat.” Contra Cheney, argues Gene Healy, it’s important to
examine our past mistakes, lest we get snookered into repeating
them. Going back 11 or 12 years isn’t enough — it’s past time to
reevaluate the Gulf War of 1991, the “famous victory” that helped
get us into this mess.

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