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Here’s
how, in his classic Vietnam War history, The Best and the Brightest,
David Halberstam summed up Washington life via the career of Dean Rusk,
the hawkish Secretary of State under presidents John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon Johnson: “If you are wrong on the hawkish side of an event you
are all right; if you are accurate on the dovish side you are in
trouble.”
Wouldn’t it be
wonderful, so many decades later, to be able to say that such a
statement is thoroughly out of date in Washington and elsewhere in this
country? Unfortunately, on the evidence of the Iraq War years, it would
be a lovely lie.
Where, after all, are those who went out into the streets
in their millions globally to say: don’t do it, it’s madness! And the
far smaller crew who said the same about the Afghan War? Logically,
they should be celebrated today. They were on target. To the extent
anyone could, they saw it coming. Logically, some of the more prescient
among them should be our experts of the moment. They should be the
media’s go-to guys and gals as a war atmosphere builds vis-a-vis Iran
that has eerie similarities to the pre-Iraq invasion period (despite the intervening decade-plus of disaster in the Greater Middle East). READ MORE
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