Public Opinion and Iraqgate
The Times wonders, after all its whining about Iraqgate, why the public doesn’t give a damn. I suggest this may be because the public, unlike The Times, recognizes a brilliant military and diplomatic stroke when they see one. Essentially what the Administration did was to back one Mideastern bully against a far more dangerous one (Iran). Then, with the major threat subdued, the U.S. thoroughly gelded the victor. All in a quick, textbook war at virtually no human cost to America. Is it really so hard to see?
ARTHUR HANSL
Santa Monica
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