“The Iraq Narrative”
Joshua Foust on Apr 05 2008 at 7:38 am | Filed under: Around the Web, Notes on the war
Abu Muqawama looks at the unconditionally rosy pictures of Iraq painted by Fred and Kim Kagan and sees nothing but disaster for the future civil-military relations:
Why is this dangerous? Because when the next president — Obama or McCain — comes to office and is suddenly confronted with the messy reality of Iraq, he might have to make some tough decisions. And if he decides to start cutting our loses and moving our finite troops to Afghanistan and back to the U.S. for re-training, he — especially if it’s Obama — is going to get mercilessly crucified by the right for abandoning the glorious success that was our involvement in Iraq. The “stabbed in the back” narrative will take hold, and it proponents will seize the dishonest picture of Iraq painted by the Kagans as evidence that we were winning in Iraq before the cowardly liberals took charge.
Naturally, this would have rather serious consequences for the military’s relationship with the rest of the country. The whole post is worth reading in full.
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