The ‘Great Reassessment’ to come?
To the Rush Limbaugh’s, Mark Levin’s and Sean Hannity’s of the world, Ron Paul was an insane “isolationist” “kook” who might as well have been pulling for the “enemy” when he, almost alone, argued passionately against America’s involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin were of course arguing passionately for these wars.
You might have noticed that America’s effort to transform these nations into future democratic Americas doesn’t get discussed much anymore.
The talk show hosts – like their listeners – now know that the whole effort was a tragic folly.
While it might have taken a couple decades for history to make a definitive judgment on America’s war in Vietnam, such a judgment hasn’t taken nearly as long with our military involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In just a few years, public opinion (and history’s “verdict”) has changed 180 degrees.
