The recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings highlight a development that ought to have inspired a great public debate but hasn't. From the very beginning, the Bush administration has been intent on waging war against Iraq, and by now nearly the whole country seems resigned to a U.S. attack. Within the government, discussion concerns matters of timing, strategy, mobilization of military resources, provision of bases, and so forth. Hardly any prominent person has questioned the attack’s underlying rationale. Yet the justification for this war remains extremely problematic. u201CIf we do this,u201D said Anthony Cordesman, military guru and Iraq specialist, u201Cit … Continue reading Demonizing Iraq