'GovRonDeSantis is right about [the war in Ukraine], and jonathanchait effectively has no retort. So he does what the laziest hawks did in 2002 and calls anyone who disagrees with him a dictator-lover,' Timothy P Carney writes.
To this end, Chait is rolling out the same sort of bad arguments that Iraq hawks used 20 years ago, beginning with the accusation that if you express concern about the costs of United States intervention, the potential for blowback, or the dangers of regime change, you are a fan of the evil dictator.Those of us who publicly opposed the Iraq War 20 years ago were called terrorist sympathizers, Saddam supporters, and unpatriotic.
The second time Chait deploys the “for war or for the bad guy” argument technique regards — and I am not joking — regime-change wars. DeSantis knows that regime-change wars are a bad idea. This is not a novel idea. It’s pretty obvious that deposing Hussein and deposing Moammar Gadhafi did not improve things in Iraq or in Libya.
DeSantis actually wrote that regime change “would neither stop the death and destruction of the war nor produce a pro-American, Madisonian constitutionalist in the Kremlin. History indicates that Putin’s successor, in this hypothetical, would likely be even more ruthless. The costs to achieve such a dubious outcome could become astronomical.”
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