Bob Rae Is Off His Effing Rocker re. Afghanistan

Is it not a sign of a deteriorating mind, or sanity, to write such contradictory statements in such proximity within an essay? Shorter Rae: "Vietnam was an misguided ideological imperial war fought for trumped up existential reasons, and we shouldn't do that, and so in Afghanistan..."the West can’t afford to lose." WTF?
Rae Off His Rocker

Is this not just another Vietnam? Those in that war who insisted on the justness of the cause warned that the entire South Asian neighbourhood would be infected with communism if American troops were withdrawn, falling like so many dominoes. They were wrong. Why listen to the same siren song now?

Thoughtful engagement with the world requires that we gauge the costs and consequences of intervention, that the rhetoric be lowered, and that we abandon any notion that ours is a sacred mission similar to imperial ventures of the past.

But it equally requires an understanding of the deep instability in many parts of the globe, including Afghanistan, and that this instability — and the hatreds associated with it — pose a risk not only to people in a region but to us. This is where the Vietnam analogy breaks down: the West can’t afford to lose.

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