Why are people still losing their minds over Hillary?

[athena]

78. And what if it hadn't?

Remember, the vote was not even supposed to result in war. At the time, the idea was to give GWB the power to go to war, which he was supposed to use as a bargaining tactic. I remember from that time that no one thought GWB was actually going to declare war.

But suppose GWB had declared war, and it had not proved to be a catastrophic disaster. In the early days, at least, all we heard was news that American soldiers were welcomed with open arms and flowers. Even I, who had opposed the war from the start, had begun to think that I had perhaps been wrong. What if Saddam Hussein had been removed and Iraq had gone on to become a beacon of democracy in the Middle East? Democrats would have been painted for decades afterwards as soft on terror. Remember, this was not that long after 9/11. The country was still very scared. The anti-war position was not as popular or wide-spread as it became years later.

Politics is not as simple as some people like to pretend it is. It's not about purity but about the art of the possible. Even FDR was not a purist; he was a pragmatist who focused on what was possible and was criticized for being too centrist. Those who opposed Hillary because she wasn't pure enough gave us President Trump, just as those who opposed Gore because he wasn't liberal enough gave us President George W. Bush. The worst part is that the purists still haven't learned their lesson. I'm afraid they never will.