Voices: TPM Cafe

Matt Yglesies has a short review of Voices up at TPM Cafe.   He raises a really important point:

My reading of this narrative, though not necessarily the author's, was that the United States in an important way "lost" the argument about the Iraq War before Bush even took office. Neither the Clinton administration, nor the Bush administration, nor any of either administration's Arab surrogates, were able to convince most people to view the conflict our way -- the suffering of Iraqis under sanctions as Saddam's fault, rather than ours and American policy toward the region as broadly beneficial rather than driven by narrow interests.

You can find my brief thoughts about this over at the Voices supplemental blog (where I put information about my appearances and reviews of the book).