Along the lines of what I write about below, here Chris Matthew, Ezra Klein, Chuck Todd, and April Ryan talking about Bush’s newer, more explicit talk about his desire for a perpetual American military presence in Iraq:
It should be said that the difference between Iraq and South Korea isn’t just that post-armistice our troops stopped taking casualties in Korea. The bigger difference is that a US military presence in Korea was part of a larger strategic doctrine — defending the anti-Communist ROK government from the Communist government in Pyongyang as part of a larger strategy of containment — that made sense. What we’re doing in the Gulf right now is driven by confusion, hubris, and vainglory.
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