Stupid People

Okay, I shouldn't even bother with this one:

MORGAN: I think that…yeah, we should have a lot more troops in the beginning. Look, I’m not a cheerleader for the President of the United States. Um, I…I believe that he made the right decision and he did it for the right reasons. I don’t agree with all of the way the war has been prosecuted. I think we should have gone in and just blitzed Iraq. We haven’t had a, a serious war, really, since WWII. We’ve had…

MATTHEWS: What would that mean, blitz?

MORGAN: It would have…it means that we should have gone in and be prepared to win it, not just to do…to avoid collateral damage. And I think that’s one of the mistakes that uh, this administration has made…

But it's just like how McCain said last week that we need 100,000 more troops to win in Iraq, it's starting to get stupid now that the new pro-war mantra is that it was the right decision, we just didn't go far enough. The fact is we fucked it up. We were wrong to not have a plan, we were wrong to leave Afghanistan, we were wrong to go into Iraq. Throwing more bodies into the fire won't solve the problem. Neither will making us look like nihilistic murderers by saying we should've wiped the place clean at the beginning.
I think I wrote about that a lot right after 9/11. The idea that many people viewed that event as requiring the backlash of "blow the bastards sky high" or we should just "nuke 'em all" to me was abhorrent then and I don't really appreciate it now. If the conflict's only resolution is eliminating the opposition, why would we destroy everybody not involved by nuking the entire region?