Iraq War is a Failure, says Krauthammer

Well, as Paul Mulshine has to concede, it's only a retroactive admission.  But you have to accept Mulshine's logic.

I was doing a bit of research and came upon this quote from a Krauthammer column of October 8, 2003:

"If in a year or two we are able to leave behind a stable, friendly government, we will have
succeeded. If not, we will have failed. And all the geniuses will be vindicated."

It's four years now. The people who have been vindicated are not geniuses but simple old-fashioned conservatives who warned against getting involved in massive nation-building schemes.

This Krauthammer piece actually appeared in the Washington Post in 2003.  Here's a link: OUR INSTANT EXPERTS.

And here's the whole paragraph:

Losing the peace? No matter what anyone says now, that question will be answered only at the endpoint. If in a year or two we are able to leave behind a stable, friendly government, we will have succeeded. If not, we will have failed. And all the geniuses will be vindicated.