Anti-war History with an Agenda
The “cut-and-run” crowd has resorted to rewriting history. Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute, a thinktank that I normally have respect for, has written a piece released in the Chicago Sun-Times that would have you believe that our involvement in Iraq has now lasted longer than our involvement in World War II. Unfortunately, that correlation is a direct and deliberate misrepresentation of historical fact.
Carpenter states,
The U.S. mission in Iraq has now lasted longer than America’s involvement in World War II. That should be an occasion for sober reflection. In less than four years — from 1941 to 1945 — …
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