In Foreign Policy, Col. W. Patrick Lang, Jr. tries to cast America’s failure in Iraq not only as a failure of the Bush administration, a sycophantic army willing to invade a country with too few troops and not enough equipment, and a gutless Congress, but as a failure of all Americans.

Well, fuck you Col. W. Patrick Lang, Jr. because many Americans raised exactly the points you are raising now before the war but were either shouted down or ignored. If some Americans honestly believed that we would be welcomed as liberators, I would argue that that was because they believed the the other lies of the politicians as well, like there was a connection between Al-Qaeda and S. Hussein or Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.

The failures in Iraq are only my fault in that I did not do everything in my power to prevent a war that was obviously such a bad idea.