The retro-rationale of the neo-cons

There is a interesting article in the Washington Post by Charles Krauthammer on the Iraq blame game. A sample. . .

"......... We have made a lot of mistakes in Iraq. But when Arabs kill Arabs and shiites kill Shiites and Sunnis kill all in a spasm of violence that is blind and furious and has roots in hatreds born long before America was even a republic, to place the blame on the one player, the one country, the one military that has done more than any other to try to separate the combatants and bring conciliation is simply perverse. It infantilizes Arabs. It demonizes Americans. It willfully overlooks the plainest of facts: Iraq is their country. We midwifed their freedom. They chose civil war."

There are no easy answers to the Iraq quagmire, but here we have the emerging neo-con defence of their Iraq policy - It was a valiant attempt, with soaringly worthy goals, but pesky extraneous factors beyond our control got in the way, and so ...... hands washed, self-perception intact. Read the story here.