Hawks having Second Thoughts


Some former "advisors" of hawkish "orientation" are now having second thoughts about the "advice" they bestowed on their maximum leader.

Here comes the Prince of Darkness aka Richard Perle,

"The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn't get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly," Mr Perle told Vanity Fair, according to early excerpts of the article. "At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible."

Followed by Kenneth Adelman:

Kenneth Adelman, another Reagan era hawk who sat on the Defence Policy Board until last year, drew attention with a 2002 commentary in the Washington Post predicting that liberating Iraq would be a "cakewalk".

He now says he hugely overestimated the abilities of the Bush team. "I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent," Mr Adelman said.

"They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the postwar era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional."


Indeed everyone in the team was incompetent, except of course, the good old Mr. Adelman. :)

Not to be left behind, Mr. Frum.....


Mr Frum, who as a White House speechwriter helped coin the phrase "axis of evil" in 2002, said failure in Iraq might be inescapable, because "the insurgency has proven it can kill anyone who cooperates, and the United States and its friends have failed to prove that it can protect them". The blame, Mr Frum said, lies with "failure at the centre", beginning with the president.

So now, blame it all on The Boss! Nice way to save your own skin. Offense is the best defense, as they say. Or as the Urdu saying goes, "jab kashti doobnay lagti hey to boj utara kartey hein..." (leave the drowning boat alone)