[Vision2020] My Mistake

[Melynda Huskey]

My fingers worked faster than my brain--thanks to Dan, Ron, and others for 
providing *me* with a little reality check.

Luckily, my factual error doesn't materially injure the larger argument:  
our latest series of military interventions in the world have made matters 
worse, rather than better.  The world is not safer, nor more stable.  Osama 
bin Laden has not been captured or deterred.  The people of Afghanistan 
suffered terrible casualities during the bombing campaign.  We have failed 
to provide anything like the financial assistance we promised for rebuilding 
that nation.  The new constitution, according to those firebrands at Amnesty 
International, does not adequately protect the human and civil rights of 
women (of course, that was a low priority for us back when the Taliban were 
our friends, too).

Meanwhile, our president consults Prince Bandur of Saudia Arabia (home of 15 
of the 19 September 11 hijackers) about our war plans before he gets to the 
Secretary of State.  Maybe that's because he doesn't know who Colin Powell 
is--did anyone else notice that Bush referred to Rumsfeld as the Secretary 
of State during his press conference?

We could hardly have handled these matters more ineffectually--and the 
tragic, unnecessary deaths of many thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians, 
of U.S. soldiers, and of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers are the result.

Melynda Huskey

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