FCNL - period ended 1.1.2006
FCNL/War/Iraq/Smith, Daniel/A Forensic Anatomy of the Strategy for “Victory”/Foreign Policy In Focus/Washington/DC/USA/21-Dec-05//…. The irony of this whole Iraq adventure is that in ostensibly endowing Iraqis with freedom, the freedoms of Americans have been curtailed with no indication of when--if ever--they will be restored. Unless the public presses for the full restoration of the freedoms abridged by the unconstitutional presidential proclamation of “war,” those who follow us will live in a more rigid and autocratic society.
If so, perhaps in 100 or so years, Iraqis will be willing to “liberate” North Americans.
Dan Smith is a military affairs analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus (online at www.fpif.org), a retired U.S. Army colonel, and a senior fellow on military affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation …..
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