When you hear level-headed people say that General Kristol and the Neocons have been wrong about literally everything for the past five years, they’re not kidding. Anonymous Liberal — guest-posting for Glenn at Unclaimed Territory — gives us a small sample of the predictions made by TIME Magazine’s new “star” columnist:
On March 17, 2003, on the eve of our invasion of Iraq, Bill Kristol wrote the following:
We are tempted to comment, in these last days before
the war, on the U.N., and the French, and the Democrats. But the war
itself will clarify who was right and who was wrong about weapons of
mass destruction. It will reveal the aspirations of the people of Iraq,
and expose the truth about Saddam’s regime. It will produce whatever
effects it will produce on neighboring countries and on the broader war
on terror. We would note now that even the threat of war against Saddam
seems to be encouraging stirrings toward political reform in Iran and
Saudi Arabia, and a measure of cooperation in the war against al Qaeda
from other governments in the region. It turns out it really is better
to be respected and feared than to be thought to share, with exquisite
sensitivity, other people’s pain. History and reality are about to
weigh in, and we are inclined simply to let them render their verdicts.Now, you would think that being so incredibly wrong about such
an important subject might hurt your career prospects, and that would
probably be true in any other field. But in the world of Washington
punditry, being consistently and catastrophically wrong about
everything is apparently not an obstacle to advancement. Read more…
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