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05/05/08 -- Anti-war Rhetoric: A Work In Progress
Writing for the Weekly Standard, American Enterprise Institute scholar Frederick Kagan recently examined how anti-war leaders have been forced to change their rhetoric in response to the continuing stream of positive developments in Iraq. Kagan correctly observed that the initial criticisms – “the surge has failed, Iraqis will never reconcile, Iraqi troops won't fight, violence won't fall or, if it does, it won’t stay down – have fallen by the wayside as they have been visibly disproven one by one.”
So now, anti-war leaders have developed a new set of arguments: “the war costs too much, America’s economy is in trouble, Iraq is an oil-rich nation.
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