Crow
Monday, March 31st, 2003Josh Marshall (who is dealing with his post-dissertation downtime better than I, apparently) responds to Andrew Sullivan. He concludes with this:
Among old lefties, there always used to be this line that you couldn’t say socialism or communism had failed because it had never really been tried. I told a friend a few days ago, that for better or worse, after this is done, we’re not going to be able to say the same thing about neo-conservatism. This is their show. If it all pans out great, they’ll really be able to crow. If it doesn’t, there will be nowhere to run.
It would seem to me that there’s a fair amount of backpedalling in the current administration as it is: the entire economic team’s been canned and replaced, Perle “resigned,” and now Rumsfeld seems to be mystified that the press has finally started, you know, asking questions. And doing some reporting. And writing pieces that clearly lay out what’s at stake here and who’s to blame.
And just yesterday, the Times and the Post were full of stories about rifts becoming public between Rumsfeld and the Pentagon and the Republican Party and the administration (I can’t find any of them now). Perhaps there will be another round of resignations before too long.
In the meantime, when this is all over, we’ll occupy the two countries on either side of Iran.