Your DA Reminder of the Day: Don't Listen to Paul Wolfowitz Posted by Michael Cohen

Here's Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 Congressional testimony confidently predicting the likely outcome of the US invasion of Iraq:

Some of the higher-end predictions that we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq, are wildly off the mark. First, it’s hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army. Hard to imagine. 

. . . Iraqi civilians would welcome an American-led liberation force that "stayed as long as necessary but left as soon as possible," but would oppose a long-term occupation force. And he said that nations that oppose war with Iraq would likely sign up to help rebuild it. "I would expect that even countries like France will have a strong interest in assisting Iraq in reconstruction," Mr. Wolfowitz said. He added that many Iraqi expatriates would likely return home to help.

Here's Paul Wolfowitz over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal urging the US to intervene in the Libyan civil war - with military force if necessary - because it is morally right and in our strategic interest to do so:

Some advocates of inaction are afraid that anything the U.S. might do could slip down a disastrous slippery slope toward American participation in an international occupation of Libya. Understandably, no American wants Libya to become a repetition of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. But neither does anyone in the Arab world appear to want it, least of all the Libyan people. What they are asking for is assistance from the international community so that they can fight for their own freedom on equal terms with Gadhafi's forces.

It is both morally right and in America's strategic interest to enable the Libyans to fight for themselves—precisely so that we are not faced with the terrible choice of seeing them crushed or intervening directly to liberate them.

Here's the thing, if one wants to avoid a policy outcome that leads to a repetition of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan I can think of an excellent place to start.

Don't listen to Paul Wolfowitz.

 

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