Matt Duss on Lieberman’s most recent bout of warmongering with respect to Yemen. One wonders whether these are the types of dots that Pete Hoekstra demanded connecting:
It’s also very much worth noting that the ranks of Yemen’s Islamic extremist insurgency have been fed by fighters returning from Iraq, bringing with them tactics and experience gained in one of the previous wars that Joe Lieberman supported. Unfortunately, the nature of our national security debate is such that militaristic voices like Lieberman’s will always be treated as “serious,” even when the problems they’re proposing to solve have only been made worse by their previous harebrained militarism.
Why, it’s almost as if more war leads to more radicalization and not the other way around.
Hmmm.
What if, then, more war in Afghanistan and Pakistan was not the answer to tamping down radicalization in Pakistan and stabilizing a country that wasn’t in dire need of stabilizing before we expanded that conflict?
[pauses to ponder]
Nah, that’s just crazy hippie talk. Silly me, negative consequences (worst case scenarios in fact) only flow from ending wars.
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