Questions swirl in the aftermath of 20 years of American military invasion of Iraq. Answers may lie with media players covering this at the time.
But nothing I say is as remotely critical as a Wall Street Journal column by Gerry Baker, the paper’s former editor-in-chief and self-described right-wing curmudgeon.
"The promulgation of the WMD fictions, the Abu Ghraib horrors, the catastrophically inept initial occupation and administration—all undid in a matter of months the post-Cold War authority and heft the U.S. had earned over decades." U.S. Army soldiers take part in the casing ceremony on Aug. 21 for the last American combat brigade to serve in Iraq as a small army of American diplomats is left behind to keeping the volatile country from slipping back to the brink of civil war.In perhaps the most stinging paragraph that a British journalist can deliver, Baker writes that"there has been no accountability for the architects of the debacle.
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