I already commented on this in one of the open threads last night, but I'm so outraged by it, and feel it so worthy of attention I decided to write a diary about it. So, my apologies ahead of time for being redundant, and if by chance there has already been another diary about this subject, my apologies for that as well.
Tucked away in a piece on tompaine.com about the emerging disaster in Iraq by Robert Dreyfuss is this jaw dropper :
The always-delightful Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, says the crisis in Iraq doesn't change a thing: "There has been no fundamental change in our views. I have been wrong on some things but I don't think I would fundamentally repudiate anything I wrote. The Middle East is complicated and some places can never be reformed. It is a wild overstatement to say that containment is a thing of the past. . . we are not abandoning that."
Let me repeat. "The Middle East is complicated and some places can never be reformed." Did you get that? This has to be one of the most stunning statements of the year, if not the decade. After spending years obsessively promoting a war to topple Saddam Hussein, finally getting their way, and in the process costing thousands of coalition troops and Iraqis their lives, many millions of Americans billions of hard earned dollars, and creating near-total chaos in the country, Kristol and the neocons apparently don't give a shit about the mess they helped to make. It's as though he's a seven year old who's gotten bored making a mess with his army men in the sandbox, so he'll just leave them there and go play somewhere else now. Absolutely stunning. I am the most jaded and cynical person I know, and I am wholly speechless.