A straight line can be drawn from that moment to the election of Donald Trump, writes mattklewis
. And our most recent foray into Iraq had been a walk in the park. In the heady days of 2003, it was easy to rationalize that this decision was morally correct, strategically sound, and likely to go smoothly.
It didn’t go well, and the fallout was worse than expected. And I’m not just talking about the insurgency. Not finding any WMDs resulted in faulty intel being held up as additional evidence that the so-called “experts” and elites were either incompetent, evil, or both. There is a straight line from this belief to today’s animosity directed at our intel agencies .
A straight line can also be drawn from that moment to the election of Donald Trump to the ongoing hatred of Dr. Anthony Fauci . Bush’s decision two decades ago generated negative reverberations that carried into our modern political world. And this, in my opinion, is the ultimate indictment of Bush’s decision.But why revisit the past? Counterfactuals and alternative histories can be a waste of time, but they can also serve as a cautionary tale to help avoid future mistakes.
Bush’s war in Iraq contributed to discrediting neoconservatism, mainstream conservatism, and, yes, establishment Republicanism. It led to Barack Obama’s election (he
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