Minggu, 17 April 2005

Past Prognostications

Our Not-So-Wise Experts

A litany of past failure

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online



Brent Scowcroft predicted on the eve of the Iraqi elections that voting there would increase the risk of civil war. Indeed, he foresaw “a great potential for deepening the conflict.” He also once assured us that Iraq “could become a Vietnam in a way that the Vietnam war never did.” Did he mean perhaps worse than ten years of war and over 50,000 American dead, with the Cambodian holocaust next door? etc

Tidak ada komentar:

Posting Komentar