Uhler to Dobbins: don't blame us

Walter C. Uhler has a widely-copied article up today criticizing James Dobbins for writing that we all bear blame for America's failure in Iraq, and making fun of Dobbins' idiotic and unhelpful advice. It's pretty funny and you should read it if you haven't. I won't excerpt it except for this bit at the end:

...if we genuinely seek to assure that the current debate over the United States' failure in Iraq yields constructive results, we must ignore the advice of James Dobbins to blame all Americans and begin the painful and potentially disruptive process of racking and stacking. After all, in America's so-called meritocracy, the people who got it wrong should pay a price. Public humiliations, remedial training, demotions, resignations, dismissals, newsroom shakeups, think-tank purges, criminal indictments, congressional investigations and impeachments, where warranted, would mark the beginning of genuine accountability.

What better way to yield constructive results for future administrations than to expose the arguments of, and render justice to, the ideologues, pundits and politicians who either mongered for an unprovoked war or acquiesced in it?

Yeah, no kidding! Any of you who are familiar with me know I've been saying that for quite some time now.