Jon Finer, Rob Malley, and Jeff Prescott have penned a truly bizarre article arguing that Iraq war dead-enders could help oppose a Trump-led war with Iran:
The stakes are high—as reckless and unsettling as Trump’s Presidency has been thus far, he has yet to make a mistake anywhere near as costly as the Iraq War. If the proponents of that war support Trump’s apparent willingness to either risk or seek war, they would be giving the Administration’s dangerous approach credibility and Congress a rationale to go along. A more consistent response, given their criticism of Trump, would be to publicly acknowledge that an attempt by this Administration to confront Iran could have dangerous consequences, or that the President can’t be trusted to manage it effectively.
The Iraq war supporters the authors refer to by name include David Frum, Max Boot, Bill Kristol, and Bret Stephens. This is the Who’s Who of consistently lousy foreign policy thinking. If they have been right about any major foreign policy issue in the last twenty years, it would be news to the entire world. Every single one of them hates the nuclear deal with Iran with a passion, and they have argued in favor of military action against Iran at one point or another. There is zero evidence that any of them would oppose attacking Iran. Unlike Ken Pollack, whom the authors refer to several times, they have never acknowledged that they were wrong about the invasion of Iraq, nor have they even considered applying the lessons of that debacle to other foreign policy questions.
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