They said Saddam had WMDs. He didn't. They said he was in league with Osama bin Laden. He wasn't. They predicted that no major postwar insurgency in Iraq would occur. It did. They said there would be a wave of pro-Americanism in the Middle East and the world if the United States acted boldly and unilaterally. Instead, there was a regional and global wave of anti-Americanism.
So concludes former neoconservative writer Michael Lind, writing about the neocon movement in the February 23 issue of The Nation. Maybe it takes an apostate to really explain his former creed; it's about as definitive an article as I've seen.
Very, very cool that he's speaking out.
Posted by: JeanNINE at February 19, 2004 09:22 AM