Ramblings from the Rock: A litany of past failure. It is hard to trust folks in the future that have been so wrong in their views.

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A litany of past failure. It is hard to trust folks in the future that have been so wrong in their views.

Our Not-So-Wise Experts
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online Original Article

Brent Scowcroft predicted on the eve of the Iraqi elections that voting there would increase the risk of civil war. Indeed, he foresaw “a great potential for deepening the conflict.” He also once assured us that Iraq “could become a Vietnam in a way that the Vietnam war never did.” Did he mean perhaps worse than ten years of war and over 50,000 American dead, with the Cambodian holocaust next door?

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