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The Case Against the Liberal Hawks

This Nation article by Anatol Lieven is arguably the most effective and comprehensive rebuttal of the liberal hawk ideology I have yet read in a magazine. It is time for the Bermans of the world to not merely berate the admin for failing to unleash an effective propaganda onslaught, but also to acknowledge that conflating the Baathists and Islamists as partners in "Islamofacism" was tragically mistaken.

I only wish The Nation and other magazines that opposed the war had mustered Lieven's argument, in this form, before the war. The analysis and historical work necessary to arrive at it existed, but the Left was seemingly too caught off guard by the neocon onslaught and too distracted by the hysteria over WMD.