Here’s a speech by Huckabee on foreign policy. He’s supremely confident about what needs to be done in Iraq.
But he inadvertently speaks the truth about Iraq: it’s an imaginary country.
“Our experience in Iraq provides a valuable lesson for Iran. We have since learned that when we overthrew Saddam, we invaded an “imaginary country” because our information was so out of date. We relied on exiles who had long since fled the country, who exaggerated the condition of Iraq’s infrastructure, the strength of its middle class, and the secular nature of its society. If we had had diplomatic relations with Iraq and an ambassador in Baghdad, we obviously would have had better information. So before we put boots on the ground in the future, we’d better have some wing tips there first.
HT D. Ulrich
5:58 am on November 9, 2007
