Sanity is not Statistical

Posted on August 23, 2007 by David

From the Houston Chronicle, August 2002:

Many months, or years, from now, we may be a nation divided over war in Iraq. Such national anguish is not inevitable, however. Another Gulf of Tonkin-type act, which seems likely today, can be avoided with a sober analysis of the peril of war and the pursuit of alternative strategies in the Middle East. Americans can mobilize to oppose military action in Iraq and Congress can take its responsibilities seriously and ask hard questions about the need for and conduct of any war there. To do less than that is a moral and political failure.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was ultimately rescinded, but the damage had already been done. Let’s hope that history doesn’t repeat itself with regard to Iraq.

From President Bush, almost five years to the date later:

One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of Americas withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like “boat people,” “re-education camps,” and “killing fields.”

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