Andrew Bacevich is a "favorite true conservative." Why?

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Maybe it's because he is a Colonel who buried his son, and knows what war is, and not a chickenhawk?
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My own view is that every American war, large or small, ought to be commemorated smack dab in the middle of the nation’s capital. Crowding every inch of the Mall with granite and marble war memorials—the bigger the better—just might help deflate the continuing American illusion that we are a peaceful people desirous of nothing except to be left alone. It might help us see ourselves as we really are.

Yet the commemoration of the Iraq War ought to have a second component: American soldiers and American citizens are owed an accounting of exactly what this war was about. Who devised it? What was its actual purpose? What did it achieve and at what cost? Why did so much go so wrong for so long? Who should be held accountable?

As the U.S. military misadventure in Iraq approaches its conclusion, loose ends abound. We need to tie up as many of those loose ends as we possibly can—not too settle scores or engage in partisan posturing, but to get to the bottom of things.
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http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/bacevich

"To get to the bottom of things."
That sums up what a thorough investigation of the Mideast mess might do. That is also probably why it isn't happening. Who knows what or who will be found there? It's past time for the light to shine in.
Let the slime fall where it may.