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Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer winner and NY Times columnist, "D-Day," 19 March 2003
nytimes.com/2003/03/19/opinion

But here we are, going to war, basically alone, in the face of opposition, not so much from '"the Arab Street," but from "the World Street." Everyone wishes it were different, but it's too late -- which is why this column will henceforth focus on how to turn these lemons into lemonade. Our children's future hinges on doing this right, even if we got here wrong. The president's view is that in the absence of a U.N. endorsement, this war will become ''self-legitimating'' when the world sees most Iraqis greet U.S. troops as liberators. I think there is a good chance that will play out. But wars are fought for political ends. Defeating Saddam is necessary but not sufficient to achieve those ends, which are a more progressive Iraq and a world with fewer terrorists and terrorist suppliers dedicated to destroying the U.S., so Americans will feel safer at home and abroad. We cannot achieve the latter without the former. Which means we must bear any burden and pay any price to make Iraq into the sort of state that fair-minded people across the world will see and say: ' You did good. You lived up to America's promise."
21 Mar 2023 at 17:27 | Open on mas.to
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Simon Brooke

@yogthos "a world with fewer terrorists and terrorist suppliers..."

Well that worked well, didn't it?

#IraqWar

21 Mar 2023 at 17:43 | Open on mastodon.scot
Yogthos

@simon_brooke worked out the same way every neocon project works out in the end

21 Mar 2023 at 19:39 | Open on mas.to
Simon Brooke

@yogthos Not going to like that, but I acknowledge its truth.

21 Mar 2023 at 19:41 | Open on mastodon.scot
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