The World According to Cobban

"Of the many critical views of U.S. involvement in Iraq, the single most bizarre is that it is morally superior to hope that U.S.-supported democratization fall on its face. One high-minded thinker who holds this view is Helena Cobban, who reacted (justworldnews.org) recently to an analysis of the potential costs of U.S. failure with this moral howler:

"I think that a failure of the Bush administration's project in Iraq could constitute a net victory for the US citizenry, in terms of starting to re-balance our relations with the rest of the world away from imperial hegemony and back towards basic human equality."

Yeah, well, Bush's failure means jihadi success. Thus, in Cobban's moral universe, a victory for people who target children with car bombs, beat women with rubber truncheons if a strand of hair is showing, topple walls on gays, behead Nepalese dishwashers, etc., would be simply glorious, a step "back towards basic human equality." "
IraqPundit