Don’t Listen to the Kagans
by Carl Prine
Line of Departure
There’s been an outpouring of idiocy lately from the unaccountable frauds who got us deeply involved in wars neither the U.S. – nor any other great nation — could win.
The chief pitch of these snake oil salesmen seems to be that Iraq is now lost because, take your pick: 1) Barack Obama followed the law and removed troops from the republic; 2) the shared puppet-on-a-string of Tehran and Washington, the feckless and incompetent Nuri al-Maliki, continues to act fecklessly and incompetently; 3) White House diplomacy failed to cement the hard-won COINerrific changes wrought by American military brains and brawn in 2007; or, 4) all the above.
You should pay these wonky dullards no mind. Many of them are merely attempting to salvage what’s left of their professional reputations after disastrously overselling the so-called “Afghan Surge,” something made easier by distracting you with tall tales about Iraq, what they consider a success story even though it wasn’t.
Others have ginned up a mythological past to parade before an unrecognizable present in Baghdad to take cheap political shots at, admittedly, a pretty terrible Democratic president and his third-string administration.Leading the charge has been the dynamic duo of DC dipsh***tery, Fred and Kim Kagan, a double-shot of intellectual cancer designed apparently to make anyone who reads their historically-challenged agitprop dumber by the word.
