Project For A New American Thought Experiment

Neocon columnist Charles Krauthammer has a 'thought experiment' for all the fools in Congress who won't patriotically shut up and support our vague, open-ended war in Iraq. He wants us to take the Martian perspective on our two failing wars.

He proudly declares that "the Martian would choose Iraq".

In doing so, he finally (unintentionally) comes clean on why his crew abandoned the Afghanistan mission to start a new war of choice in Iraq. He dismisses the former as "a geographically marginal backwater with no resources and no industrial or technological infrastructure" (blueduck's note: oh, and it was also actually where that pesky 9/11 thing was planned from) while the latter was "one of the three principal Arab states, with untold oil wealth, an educated population, an advanced military and technological infrastructure... [and] the fact that its strategic location would give its rulers inordinate influence over the entire Persian Gulf region". Kaching!

Mr. Krauthammer must've accidently forgotten to mention democracy and WMDs and rape rooms and stuff. Republicans seem to be forgetting a lot of things these days.

[PS- I concede Afghanistan war 'nostalgia' is a bit silly. Time to shit or get off the pot there.

PPS- I'd imagine the visiting Martian would wonder more why we're lead by morons.]