From a depressing article in Rolling Stone:
This is a dark chapter in our history. Whatever else happens, our country's international standing has been frittered away by people who don't have the foggiest understanding of how the hell the world works. America has been conducting an experiment for the past six years, trying to validate the proposition that it really doesn't make any difference who you elect president. Now we know the result of that experiment [laughs]. If a guy is stupid, it makes a big difference.
That's General (ret) Tony McPeak, having the last word at a roundtable discussion which also included such luminaries as Juan Cole, Richard Clarke, Paul Pillar, and Zbigniew Brzezinski. The topic was more or less "How bad can Iraq get?"
Consensus: awful, from internal strife to regional warfare.
Via Kevin Drum.
Posted by Linkmeister at March 14, 2007 12:01 AM | TrackBack