Friday, January 16, 2009

LAT: Avoid military adventures unless victory assured

In an editorial today, the LAT offers unsolicited advice to the new president concerning military matters. Take no chances, the LAT seems to say, and don't go it alone. Insure you've got allies.

The LAT critiques President Bush, no surprise. There is no war on terror, the LAT argues. And Bush had no allies when he invaded Iraq. (The Brits, Aussies, Spaniards, Poles and others were figments of Bush's imagination, apparently.) Bush should have been more like Clinton, the LAT argues, although the LAT apparently wasn't referring to interns under the desk in the Oval Office. The Balkan war was a proper war, the LAT suggests. The U.S. had sufficient allies there, presumably. Can you name them?

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