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July 01, 2005
Krugman Ignorantly Calls for Surrender
Bush's Iraq speech does seem to have swayed opinion. Fred Kaplan at Slate, hardly a Bush-lover, acknowledges that "in the first part of the speech Bush argued quite well that Iraq, as it stands now, is worth a fight." British leftie Timothy Garton Ash also seems to think America should finish the job. And this columnist in the Boston Globe blasts Democrats for "buying into Bush's war":
The main message of Bush's speech in Fort Bragg, N.C., was: ''We're in Iraq because we can't leave." Afterwards, even some of his harshest critics in the Democratic Party agreed: We can't leave.
But Paul Krugman still wants to pull out. Now, I'm not against someone taking that position. I think it's plausible (though I don't agree) that the best strategy now is to pull out. But what gets me is Krugman's complete ignorance of the matter. Krugman asserts:
T
he Iraq that emerges once U.S. forces are gone won't bear much resemblance to the free-market, pro-American, Israel-friendly democracy the neocons promised. But it will pose less of a terrorist threat than the Iraq we have now.
He's an economist. His academic training does not give him the tools to make this analysis. And the lives and liberties of millions are at stake. Krugman's depravity never ceases to inspire horror.
Posted by Good Samaritan at July 1, 2005 08:29 AM
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