Wrong? Who Me?
Did you read the article in the New York Times Magazine titled Getting Iraq Wrong? The article is written by a guy who was, until 2005, a Harvard political science professor and is now in politics in Canada. He was one of many who believed going to Iraq was a good idea. He now admits that it was an error in judgment. The article is about what the war taught him about political judgment. My favorite line of the article is as follows:
I've learned that acquiring good judgment in politics starts with knowing when to admit your mistakes.
If only...
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I've learned that acquiring good judgment in politics starts with knowing when to admit your mistakes.
If only...
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posted by jch at
8:59 AM
1 Comments:
Interesting post. I just read an editorial by Michael Kinsley in Time magazine this week that suggested there is another voice that should consider admitting its mistake:
"There is grim fun to be had, and many are having it, by reviewing what the pundits said back in 2002 and 2003 about the notion of going to war in Iraq and comparing it with what they are saying as they survey the results today. They've all changed their tunes, a little or a lot, with various degrees of contrition. Politicians, too, are under pressure to recant anything nice they may have said about the Iraq war--or, if they were Senators at the time, to apologize for their votes in favor. Some, like John Edwards, have done so. But one important voice was as wrong as any of them and now is among the most censorious about the way things have turned out. Yet this voice has never acknowledged its previous errors. In fact, no one expects it to do so, even though it is more responsible than any pundit for U.S. policy in Iraq. This is the voice of the citizenry, the American people..."
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