Bill Clinton: Obama Risks Looking Like A 'Wuss,' 'A Total Fool' If He Doesn't Act On Syria

Or maybe I misinterpreted you....



My view is that where there are CLEAR malefactors and a good chance that justice can be brought into a situation (Korea in the early 50s, WW II [ultimately], and Iraq's invasion of Kuwait for example), then intervention feels like the right thing to do. I don't know what to make of WWI because it was as choreographed as Gulf of Tonkin and at a point in history that was forever shaped by its brutality.



Blindly supporting our "ally" in South Vietnam was a complete and utter disaster - largely because the Vietnamese had no more interest to be brutalized by "our brutal dictator." As Ellsberg helped us learn, we knew we had no chance of winning, but threw tens of thousands of US lives away to purely maintain an image of combating Communism - which is now search-replaced policy-wise with "Terrorism."



Helping the Northern Alliance topple the Taliban was probably a fair meddling. But the occupations of Afghanistan in a vain attempt to 'tame the savages' and an Iraq with simmering, seething racial hatreds were lost before they began (just like Vietnam). There was simply no way to possibly bring any sort of justice (as we like to think of it).



All one needs do is float accusations of [aiding] terrorism to justify almost any unthinkable act. That has to end.
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