Ryan Lizza at The New Republic writes:
The centrist revolt against the war in Iraq is caused by shame. Americans are angry at Bush not for toppling Saddam without U.N. permission, but for turning Iraq into a symbol of humiliation for the United States. The analogy is not so much LBJ and Vietnam, but Carter and the hostage crisis. It's not the neo-imperialism. It's the embarrassing incompetence.
Interesting. Sounds plausible, but I have no way of telling if it's true or not. [Tags: bush iraq ryan_lizza tnr politics]
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by D. Weinberger at April 11, 2006 03:17 PM