full circle

This is interesting, though not surprising. When Clinton was sending troops to Bosnia back in 1995, the Republicans were outspoken in their opposition to the plan, making many of the exact arguments made today by those opposing the "open-ended peacekeeping mission" in Iraq. Pat Buchanan's 1995 criticisms sound eerily familiar: "What I think would be deplorable would be for Congress to sit back, not take a stand, let the American troops be put into Bosnia and that, if some disaster occurs, say it's Clinton's fault, it's Clinton's war (and) we're not responsible."

Of course, so do comments made by Bush when he was still governor of Texas: "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."