TY - JOUR
AU - Packer, George
AB -  ARGUMENTS The Military State of America and the Democratic Left JAMES B. RULE forward there makes it clear that the thinking that gave us the American invasion of Iraq in the first place has not gone away. George Packer, for example, inveighs against those seeking a quick exit for American forces. The balance of power among Iraq's domestic forces could easily be upset, he holds, and valuable progress undone, without a longlingering presence of Americans as enforcers. Obviously playing to the sensitivities of Dissent readers, he concludes that "much as we might wish [the war] had never happened at all, America will have obligations as well as interests in Iraq for a long time to come." The sense of all this, from Packer's standpoint, becomes clear when you recall his efforts to discredit Americans' resistance to the war in the months before it began. The antiwar movement, he wrote in the New York Times Magazine in December, 2002, "has a serious liability ... it's controlled by the furthest reaches of the American Left." He goes on, in this same article, to envisage a quite different role for those on the Left, like himself, who took what he considered 
TI - George Packer Responds
JF - Dissent
DA - 2009-01-08
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-pennsylvania-press/george-packer-responds-rPfW0MQOZx
SP - 88
EP - 88
VL - 57
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -