(Read my previous post. It's ranting is the main thought for the week. This is simply another interesting distraction).
I have tried to keep my views on the Iraq situation to a minimum on this site, it being the single most overanalyized happening since 9/11. In short, I believe that it is good that Saddam is gone, the military victory was a given, and it seems now that we were not really sure what we were getting into. Positive steps are being made, but a better plan would have naturally given better results.
That said, I read something in The Independent today that really caught my attention.
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain (1979-1990), has expressed her doubts over Britain's involvement in the Iraq war.
She agrees that Saddam had to go but that the strategy was convoluted and that involvement has become problematic.
People need to pay attention to these words coming from this person.
Why, you ask?
Three words. The Falklands War.
Yes, folks, this is the PM that led Great Britain into a war with Argentina over a few barren islands with scrubby coastline and a few inhabitants. Broadly, it was Thatcher's belligerence that led to the confrontation.
When a person who started a war over useless islands criticizes your war...
Do Not Worry
4 years ago
1 comment:
She is doing what all old politicians do . . . go crazy (see for example: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, the list goes on and on). I appreciate the fact that she "says what she thinks" but let's be honest she has had no access to any sensitive intelligence information. Neither have I, but the media doesn't act like what I have to say is relevant. Right now I put about as much weight on her words as I do Bill O'Reilly or Michael Moore.
Greg
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