Ezra Klein’s Biggest Mistake
Like many people who supported the Iraq War, Ezra Klein has written his apologia. But he fails to identify—indeed, repeats—his biggest mistake in supporting the war: When thinking of the US government, he thinks “we.” Iraq, [Kenneth Pollack] said, shouldn’t be America’s top priority. We should first focus on destroying al-Qaeda. We should then work on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Only then should we turn to Hussein. Moreover, when and if we did invade Iraq, we should do so only as part of a coordinated, multilateral operation… … After all, what other chance would we get to topple Hussein? … It wasn’t worth doing precisely because the odds were high that we couldn’t do it “right.” Klein doesn’t think a […]
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