BARBER: Our War's Mistaken Premise

Current Events » in reply to WALTER CRONKITE: Latest Iraq casualty is our national prestige

BARBER: Our War's Mistaken Premise

Don — 9/14/2003 3:00:53 PM (archived)

Our War's Mistaken Premise

By Benjamin R. Barber
Sunday, September 14, 2003; Page B07

The president is changing tactics. Forget weapons of mass destruction, the war in Iraq is about terrorism; time to go back to the United Nations to get some help with the military occupation and with paying the $87 billion reckoning for staying in Afghanistan and Iraq that is now being acknowledged. But he has reaffirmed his strategic vision: It is America's strategy of preventive war against rogue states, the very concept that has been the source of America's inability so far to defeat terrorism or establish anything resembling democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq.

More

The whole thread (41 posts)

WALTER CRONKITE: Latest Iraq casualty is our national prestige - Don - 9/14/2003 2:51:44 PM
- SDAI-Tech1 This is your mission... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2003 5:46:22 PM
  - Typical - Don - 9/14/2003 10:25:36 PM
    - I call em as I see them. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2003 4:22:20 PM
- re: Just another nail . . . - D. Spires - 9/14/2003 5:36:04 PM
  - Not another nail, but rather a screw loose......... - Publius - 9/15/2003 2:01:40 AM
    - Why war - Tom Brosz - 9/15/2003 6:06:32 AM
      - Nice to see you posting too Publius. ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2003 7:59:09 PM
  - You can't be serious - Don - 9/14/2003 6:27:04 PM
    - Serious as a heart attack - Tom Brosz - 9/15/2003 5:48:48 AM
      - No heart at all - Lindy - 9/15/2003 6:01:54 AM
        
        re: No, it is not just around the corner, Lindy . . . - D. Spires - 9/15/2003 7:04:55 AM
        
        The Left doesn't want Saddam and his ilk to win... - Tom Brosz - 9/15/2003 7:27:01 AM
    - Thanks Don - Lindy - 9/15/2003 5:46:05 AM
    - "Our completely muddled effort at rebuilding Iraq" - Larry J - 9/15/2003 1:57:08 AM
      - re: Peace will be had, Larry . . . - D. Spires - 9/15/2003 3:03:03 AM
    - Your duty? - ebnelson - 9/14/2003 8:26:36 PM
    - re: You should think before you type, Don . . . - D. Spires - 9/14/2003 8:01:57 PM
    - re: You can't be serious - RobVG - 9/14/2003 7:35:40 PM
      - Anyone who is convinced rebuilding Iraq is already a failure - ebnelson - 9/14/2003 8:35:08 PM
  - re: Really?. - Raoul - 9/14/2003 6:02:02 PM
    - re: After Vietnam . . . - D. Spires - 9/14/2003 8:00:32 PM
      - re: Press - Raoul - 9/15/2003 6:36:01 PM
        
        re: Is it worth it . . . ? - D. Spires - 9/16/2003 12:51:50 AM
- Some Perspective - Mark Eby - 9/14/2003 4:23:13 PM
  - Legally Hearsay - Don - 9/14/2003 6:10:47 PM
    - re: Legally Hearsay - Mark Eby - 9/14/2003 8:10:50 PM
- So the pro-saddam critics are still supporting him. bfd. (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/14/2003 4:02:26 PM
  - What nonsense - Don - 9/14/2003 5:16:52 PM
    - Less nonesense than your posts - ebnelson - 9/14/2003 8:29:55 PM
- KINSLEY: 87 billion excuses, but no apologies - Don - 9/14/2003 3:07:25 PM
  - Better But - Mark Eby - 9/14/2003 4:28:18 PM
- MUFSON: Show U.S. The Money - Don - 9/14/2003 3:04:00 PM
  - Bravo On Tax Cut Commentary - Mark Eby - 9/14/2003 4:31:02 PM
- BARBER: Our War's Mistaken Premise - Don - 9/14/2003 3:00:53 PM
  - Some Good Points & Some Real Bad Ones - Mark Eby - 9/14/2003 8:04:44 PM
- THOMAS: Declare victory and get out of Iraq - Don - 9/14/2003 2:57:23 PM
  - Great Example of Senility - Mark Eby - 9/14/2003 4:11:12 PM
    - re: Great Example of Senility - Don - 9/14/2003 5:27:08 PM
      - Not So Fast Don - Mark Eby - 9/14/2003 8:22:11 PM
- SANCHEZ: Bush makes Iraq the battleground - Don - 9/14/2003 2:55:19 PM

Recent posts

On this day in Current Events

The whole thread (41 posts)