The Weakly Standard is, as usual, in full revisionist mode. Witness Ralph Peters and the money quote from his latest critique of the Iraq Study Group:
No matter the politically correct language in which it may be couched, the group's fundamental recommendation will be to return to a foreign policy in which the quest for stability trumps freedom, ignores human rights, frustrates the will of ordinary people, and violates elementary decency. By resisting change, the study group will only make the changes that do come to the Middle East even more explosive and anti-American.
Right.
Freedom:
Human Rights:
Will of ordinary people:
Elementary decency:
Remember, that's the same Ralph Peters who said, in the whimsically titled opinion piece "Dude, Where's My Civil War?":
Let me tell you what I saw anyway. Rolling with the "instant Infantry" gunners of the 1st Platoon of Bravo Battery, 4-320 Field Artillery, I saw children and teenagers in a Shia slum jumping up and down and cheering our troops as they drove by. Cheering our troops.
All day - and it was a long day - we drove through Shia and Sunni neighborhoods. Everywhere, the reception was warm. No violence. None.
And no hostility toward our troops. Iraqis went out of their way to tell us we were welcome.
Yeah. Clearly connected to reality.
Bastard.
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