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In reply to the discussion: Why Hagel over someone like General Wes Clark [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Democrats who betrayed their base at the time, and failed to see what ordinary people around the globe saw, that Bush was lying.
I can't think of a more important decision a politician will ever have to make, than to send the troops into harms way and to put the lives of innocent civilians at so much risk.
Getting such an important decision wrong, imo, does not qualify you for the position of SOS. It's no surprise that we now have Libya to deal for the next untold number of decades. Hillary supported that invasion also.
In any other job such a major blunder would destroy a career at the very least.
We expect so little of our elected officials. And we get what we are willing to tolerate.
I thought, after Bush left, and Obama was elected (I supported him because he had not supported the Iraq War and I would never support anyone who did) that we would hold accountable those responsible for that horrible, criminal war that killed so many innocent people.
We seem, on the Left, to have become immune to these outrages and are more than willing to forget the principles we were able to uphold throughout the Bush years. And I wonder now if it ever was about principles.