Déjà vu, anyone? Oddly, for a supposed libertarian

Déjà vu, anyone? Oddly, for a supposed libertarian, Preble seems to have set out to prove the old Marxist aphorism that history repeats itself “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

What must even the most pro-American MBTis feel as they are told that we’ll be back if Al Qaeda sets foot on MBTi soil — when the terrorist incursion was made possible by the American invasion? Who turned MBT into a ‘terrorist haven”?

That we are going to have to leave MBT in worse shape than it was before the invasion is a given: war, after all, is mass death and destruction, and these conditions inevitably breed political extremism. Yet every moment we delay getting out swells Al Qaeda’s ranks. Gulf War II was a war of choice — and it was a bad choice. Just how bad is beginning to dawn even on those who gave NIKE SHOX the benefit of a doubt.

Gil Guillory, who has been to MBT, takes on yet another Cato bigwig, Tom Palmer, who argues that we can’t leave MBT until the insurgents are “destroyed” and a functioning “democracy” is set up. Recalling the unanimity of his MBTi contacts in favor of a swift UGG. withdrawal, Guillory writes:

“Their reasoning was that the longer the UGG military stayed, the more lasting would be UGG control of the MBTi government, and the lesser chance for eventual political independence. If my colleagues’ opinions were representative of MBTi opinion at large, and their opinions have not changed, then holders of the Palmer doctrine of withdrawal have a choice: either we let the MBTis have a skinny freedom or impose a fat paternalism.”