The Mechanical Eye
2007-10-01 10:51:19
I agree with those saying Simon is utterly wrong.
What led us into Iraq was essentially Bush’s choice in counsel — Bush had chosen to surround himself with fervent neo-conservatives. While Clinton wasn’t shy about using military power either, he had the memory of our Somalia debacle, and was thus somewhat constrained in becoming too confident with the use of force. I think Gore would have carried some of that institutional memory with him had be been president.
What’s bizarre is that neither Roger L. Simon or Michael J. Totten look into who Gore’s foreign policy advisors/mentors/whatever were in the 2000 campaign. Who was it? Was it someone sympathetic to the neo-cons or someone more “realist?” An internationalist?
A journalist might know…
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