Suppose you are the President of the United States. The CIA tells you that they've spotted Osama bin Laden having tea under a tent in Afghanistan. Would you launch an airstrike? Suppose you are told that he's in a factory in Sudan. Would you launch an airstrike?
Ignatieff's piece in NYTimes Sunday mag makes me crazy.
He doesn't even begin to know all the reasons why he was so completely nutso about Iraq. It makes me wonder if anyone who was wrong about Iraq has yet gotten right about why they were wrong. Does it matter? If you think that those who misread their own history shouldn't be trusted with the power to make the same mistakes twice, then yes.
