Ilana Mercer appears to be nearly alone by those on the right about the morality of the Iraq war because too many on the right in America no longer see issues based on right and wrong, but by “left and right.” Too many rejoice that Bush is their president because the thought of leftists being in the White House is too awful to consider. So, the president’s base and his party do nothing to hold him accountable because, after all, we could have Kerry in the White House. So, unconstitutional war is tolerated, hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American and Iraqi lives are spent in a ridiculous experiment to bring “democracy” to a country that didn’t ask for it.
I believe it was Dick Cheney, who was Secretary of Defense under Bush’s father at the end of Gulf War I, who said in reply to critics charging that Bush should have gone after Saddam instead of ending the war after 100 hours… something to the effect that if we went in and took Bagdhad, “what would we do with it?” It appears that he hasn’t yet figured out the answer to that question.

The Sultan of Najd was telling the truth, and the British learned the hard way that he was right in light of their own failed democracy project in the 1920s. Saddam, a secularized nominal Sunni who was hated by jihadis of both Shia and Sunni persuasion, held the place together the only way it could be – by brute force.

A civil war is raging there now, regardless of how we attempt to spin and deny it. Reality is a brutal teacher. The distressing thing is that there are so many who put their fingers in their ears and refuse to learn the lesson.

I believe Mussolini was famous for making the trains run on time too. Saddam is in good company.