The Home Team is an article written by Thomas Friedman and appears in the NY Times where he thinks that the Bush administration's stand on the war in Iraq is clear: It will be handled by the Pentagon... we don't need the public. Here's a bit:
We can defeat Saddam alone. But we can't build a decent political center in Iraq alone. We don't have enough legitimacy or staying power. We need to enlist all our allies - including France, Germany and the U.N. Security Council - in this titanic struggle. The Bush team has eaten crow on W.M.D. The Europeans have eaten crow on Saddam. It's time now to put the alliance that won the cold war back together.
The antiwar left is wrong: however mangled was the Bush road to war, it is a war for the values of our civilization. But the Bush conservatives are also wrong. It can't be won with an "idealism" that is selfish, greedy, arrogant, incapable of self-criticism and believing that all that matters is our will and power and nothing else."
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