Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Zen and the Art of Iraqi Regime Change:
What does it mean to overemphasize the presence of what is absent? That Zen-like question arises from an interview the Associated Press recently published with Douglas Feith, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s departing chief policy advisor. Feith told the AP the Bush administration “overemphasized” the matter of weapons of mass destruction as the rationale for invading Iraq and overthrowing the government of Saddam Hussein
That has to be the understatement not only of the young century, but of the last several centuries.
Reality to Mr. Feith: There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Feith seems to have a clue to the problem: “Anything we said at all about stockpiles was overemphasis, given that we didn’t find them.” Yes, at the risk of sound Zen-like again, any emphasis would have been overemphasis.
Exactly. Read the rest here.