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July 16, 2005
Are Hawks, Doves Given Equal Say In The Australian?
Tom Switzer of The Australian opined on July 16, 2005 that, Given that I'm writing this article from inside the trenches of what Robert Manne calls "the aggressively pro-war editorial team at The Australian", it is worth noting that Manne and I agree about one thing: the Iraq war was unnecessary. After all, the threat that Saddam Hussein posed could have been contained, as indeed it had been since the 1991 Gulf War.
He added: "And although Iraq had been ruled by a brutal tyrant, the task of exporting democracy to an arbitrarily created state and ethnically and tribally fractured society was bound to be so messy and so dangerous that it was not worth so much blood and treasure."
Well put, sir. Here's more.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 16, 2005 11:47 AM
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