Josh Marshall

Posted on February 23, 2007
Filed Under Politics, Writing |

I’m usually to the left of Josh Marshall politically, but he’s the best writer in the left blogosphere. This is the final paragraph of a recent Marshall mini-essay on the surge.

Central to the Republican line on Iraq and much more to the Democratic one than I think is sometimes realized, our whole vision is now governed by Iraq-myopia, the delusion that our national destiny is at stake in Iraq. But it’s not. We’ve done horrible harm to ourselves and the Iraqis. It’s a disaster, a catastrophe. But it’s not everything. It’s actually not even close to everything. And until we really get our collective heads around that fact I doubt we’ll ever get ourselves free of this mess.