Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“In 2002 and 2003 I was one of the few people writing for a major media organization willing to say that we were being lied into war in Iraq, which was obvious to anyone willing to face the facts. Management was not happy, but to their credit allowed me to keep writing. What I learned from those days was never to trust people who obviously want a war. … This time even mainstream media more or less acknowledged that the intelligence didn’t support claims about Iran’s nuclear program. And it took only days rather than years to acknowledge that the attack appears to have been basically a failure. Still, many pundits rushed to support Trump’s boom-boom — and assumed that the public would rally around him the way it did around Bush in 2002-3. But initial polling suggests that this dog didn’t wag.” (06/25/25)