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Thursday, March 20, 2003
When chickenhawks start counting their chickens
Now that Operation Inigo Montoya is in full swing, George Will, who avoided military service by temporarily ducking into Divinity school (apparently he missed the week where they discussed adultery) is already talking about how to end the war.
From the post-Civil War Reconstruction, to Versailles in 1919, to the futile Vietnam "peace accords," to the appallingly mishandled end of the Gulf War, America has, to say no more, a blemished record in the matter of ending wars. Today's allied plans are for fighting in a way that facilitates Iraq's postwar recovery by minimizing damage to physical infrastructure, and even to the bulk of the Iraqi military.
George's point seems to be that this should be a nice, clean, sanitary, you-can-wear-your-bowtie-to-it kind of war. I'm sure that his hope that the infrastructure damage to Iraq is minimal is a sincere desire, even if it will cause heart palpitations for Vice President Halliburton and the crony capitalists that live under his bed. Call it a "compassionate war".
Will also goes to great lengths to remind us that he used to be a history professor, before he moved on to professional windbaggery, and manages to mention the following:
Homer's "Iliad,"
English poet Rupert Brooke
Machiavelli
Dwight Eisenhower
post-Civil War Reconstruction
Versailles in 1919
Stalin
and Gen. George Patton
....all in 760 words.
In baseball, that's called hotdogging....
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