Wednesday 30 June 2010
The end of the Afghan venture
Okay, the then Attorney General realised that, legally, his first opinion was wrong. The problem is that his new opinion, which was legally correct, gave support to a invasion that was neither militarily or politically correct. It was not politically correct, because it was based on a false assumption: the presence of WMD. It was not militarily correct because it was based on another false assumption: that the US would send enough troops to do the job and had a plan to run the country well until elections could be held.
Okay, the then Attorney General realised that, legally, his first opinion was wrong. The problem is that his new opinion, which was legally correct, gave support to a invasion that was neither militarily or politically correct. It was not politically correct, because it was based on a false assumption: the presence of WMD. It was not militarily correct because it was based on another false assumption: that the US would send enough troops to do the job and had a plan to run the country well until elections could be held.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 22:23 
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