What does it say about the anti-globalization left that it began its heckling of Colin Powell today when he criticized the insane, dictatorial, racist and famine-producing policies of Robert Mugabe? Yes, Mugabe in their eyes is morally superior to the secretary of state of the United States. And we expect them to worry about Saddam?
RICH UPDATE: A reader emails to add a detail to Frank Rich’s Scowcroft Award nomination:
Just had to add a comment on Frank Rich’s use of “Blackhawk Down” author Mark Bowden to attack the pro-Iraq invasion side. Rich left out the immediately following sentence from Bowden: “But the question of war is not just an exercise in cost-benefit analysis. It’s about doing the right thing. It’s important to go down such a road with eyes open, firm conviction and a steady hand.”
The article pointed out we killed massive amounts of attackers in Mogadishu and did it without the firepower we’d bring to Baghdad and without the numbers. He does raise the possiblity of heavy casualties in street fighting (well, yeah, no big revelation there) but does not use that as a reason to refrain from invading Iraq.
The Times keeps getting confused in its roster of anti-war voices, doesn’t it?
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