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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
I have a different view of your last comment - I think it takes a very strong person to step back and revisit the past and admit errors were made...as they say, "those who do not learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them".
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Well sure ... but the average American has that luxury ... a president doesn't.
Pulling out creates a much bigger problem in my mind. You get bad intel, you act on it, it doesn't turn out to be true, but you can't let the insurgents think you're weak or you get a Black Hawk Down reaction and a bolstered terrorist network.
Should he have admitted that they had bad intel and they although there could be some positives out of the war, the bottom line is that they went in on WMD and they weren't there. I would have.
However, the bad intel thing isn't a cherry pick from the administration according to a NYT article and Berstein from the Post? it was bad presentation from the CIA brass itself where they cherry picked the outcomes and presented it as THE case.
Big difference.
Either way ... I'm not convinced that this can't work out in the end. I think there is some truth to the filter affect and that many targets are coming to Iraq to engage the US there and not filtering all over the world.
At least i hope so.