British "Letter To Editor" Forwarded By Right-Wing Friend. Dawning Realization?

"Saudi Arabia's Support For Wahhabi Radicalism Is The Taproot Of Islamic Radicalism"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/saudi-arabians-support-for-wahhabi.html

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Alan: I am encouraged that this letter is circulating on right-wing email lists. 

It reveals dawning awareness that the world is more complex than Uncle Sam's belligerent platitudes and that The Mess will not be sorted out by "common sense," a simplistic "catch-all" mechanism whereby conservatives strike reactionary poses just before assuring listeners "It's as simple as that!"

Remember when Dubyah's administration assured us that invasion of Iraq would be a "cakewalk?" 

That we would be "greeted as liberators?" 

And that the war would cost "$50 billion?"

Hey! "It's as simple as that!"

If we learned just one lesson from The Iraq War -- and The Total Chaos it unleashed across the Middle East -- it would be this: Only the simple-minded say "It's as simple as that!"

"Common Sense"

Wikiquote

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Common_sense

Mr. Bailey's letter-to-the-editor also lays responsibility for The Middle East Morass precisely where it belongs - on Smirk and Snarl's shoulders.

"For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president’s men. If convicted, they’ll have plenty of time to mull over their sins."
War historian Martin van Creveld is the only non-U.S. author whose writings are obligatory reading by America's Officer Corps

"Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid for a Foolish War" by Martin van Creveld
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/costly-withdrawal-is-price-to-be-paid.html

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"Israeli War Historian Martin van Creveld's Withering Criticism Of G.W. Bush - And More"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/israeli-war-historian-martin-van.html

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Bush's Toxic Legacy In Iraq

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/bushs-toxic-legacy-in-iraq.html

How many of us refused to pay that percentage of our taxes which supported The Vietnam War and Bush-Cheney's Whimsy War in Iraq?

We could have.

But we didn't.

The resulting blood -- 3,000,000 dead in Vietnam and a million dead in Iraq (and counting) -- is on our hands. 

Make no mistake. 

Bush and Cheney launched The Whimsy War on sheer trumpery and brazen fabrication.

Even so, they will "walk."

They will, in fact, get away with murder.

Then there are millions of maimed Iraqis hidden from view by our necrophiliac focus on "body counts."

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Also hidden from view are tens of thousands of maimed GIs.

All for nothing.

Less than nothing.

Burnt offerings on the altar of Born Again Bush's ego.

(The persistent hubris of the Abrahamic religions)

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The United States is the only country to drop "The Big One." 

And not just once, but twice.

And both times upon civilian populations.

"Christian Just War Principles" Established c. 500 A.D. 
Vs. America's "just war tradition"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/christian-just-war-principles.html