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No I-Told-You-Sos
An Iraqi army soldier races atop a destroyed home on the outskirts of Ramadi on Jan. 18 in Iraq's Anbar province.
(By John Moore -- Getty Images)
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"It's breaking my heart, watching it," he says of the war. "I was praying somehow I'd be wrong, but in my heart of hearts I knew it would happen this way -- the bad decision-making, the insufficient troops."
Congress now is mulling varying resolutions on the war, but Zinni complains that "the debate is wrong. I think Congress is debating the arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic."
But the ship, he argues, doesn't have to go down.
As the debate now centers on what can be salvaged from the U.S. engagement in Iraq, a cynical Washington exercise is underway, some of the vindicated say. It's a snake-like shedding of skin, a policy metamorphosis in which people who once were prominent cheerleaders for the war now are cozying up with the war's early opponents and distancing themselves from their earlier roles.
Matthews has seen it and fears it may warp the crucial debates about the way forward in Iraq and toward Iran.
"So many of the people who were wrong have gone on to being very visible pundits without ever admitting how wrong they were," Matthews says.
Brzezinski says there are some people -- and he's talking "outside of the administration, of course" -- who have embraced his positions in the oddest and most disingenuous way.
They say "that they are happy to have associated themselves with these views . . . ," Brzezinski says. "That is the funny part, because you meet people who say, 'Oh, I was with you all along.' "
