05.11b Israel's 1981 Pre-emptive Strike on Iraq. The Wall Street Journal editors remind us that in their June 10, 1981 article, "Mourning the Bomb", they were right to praise Israel for attacking Iraq and everybody else, including the Reagan Administration, was wrong. How can liberals keep giving stern foreign policy advice when they're wrong time after time? Stalin, Castro, Mao, Vietnam, Cambodia, Rwanda, Iraq, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Arafat, Al Qaeda, ... I can think of only one example of conservatives being wrong: South Africa is doing fine under black rule. Everywhere else, history vindicates conservatives, often showing their warnings to be in, fact, much too mild. [in full at 04.05.11b.htm]

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