TNR Rips John Kerry on Iraq
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TNR's Editorial on John Kerry's Iraq position is brutally effective (unfortunately, pay only). A few excerpts:
[Kerry's] recent evolution on Iraq makes us wistful for the John Kerry of old -- the John Kerry whose position on the war was contorted to the point of near incomprehension...
The good news is that Kerry's position on the war is no longer inscrutable. The bad news is that it is now indefensible.
In the space of a month, the Democratic standard-bearer has gone from a pledge to bring troops home during his first term in the White House, to a pledge to bring troops home during his first year in office, to a pledge to bring them home during the first six months of his administration. Today, well, he just wants to bring the troops home. Hence his latest applause line: "We're going to get our troops home where they belong!" ...
If the Democratic presidential candidate knows of specific countries that would send their young to Iraq in the event of a Kerry presidency, he ought to stop waxing Nixonian and identify them.