2. Have you changed your position?
Hardly. The main issue now is whether the war has become the greatest debacle in American foreign policy history or only the second greatest, after Vietnam.
3. What should the U.S. do in Iraq now?
A considerable number, maybe a vast majority, of the insurgents are fighting because the country has been invaded and occupied. Since the American presence is the cause of their participation in the insurgency, their incentive to fight would accordingly vanish if the United States pulled out. It's an experiment well worth conducting.
John Mueller is a professor of political science at Ohio State University. His most recent book is The Remnants of War. His next, nearing completion, is currently titled, Devils and Duct Tape: Terrorism and the Dynamics of Threat Exaggeration.
No Monday-morning quarterbacking
Charles Murray
1. Did you support the invasion of Iraq?
Yes.
2. Have you changed your position?
No. I'm as critical a Monday-morning quarterback as anyone else, but I think the administration's rationale for invading Iraq was correct, and an American president who had not invaded, given the information he had for making the decision, would have been irresponsible.
3. What should the U.S. do in Iraq now?
Damned if I know.
Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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