He has an opinion piece in the WashPost today that seems primarily designed to drive the Kos Kids insane: “Why we need more troops in Iraq”
On this point, let there be no doubt: If Iraq descends into full-scale civil war, it will be a tremendous battlefield victory for al-Qaeda and Iran. Iraq is the central front in the global and regional war against Islamic extremism.Memeorandum has the roundup of responses.
To turn around the crisis we need to send more American troops while we also train more Iraqi troops and strengthen the moderate political forces in the national government. After speaking with our military commanders and soldiers there, I strongly believe that additional U.S. troops must be deployed to Baghdad and Anbar province -- an increase that will at last allow us to establish security throughout the Iraqi capital, hold critical central neighborhoods in the city, clamp down on the insurgency and defeat al-Qaeda in that province.
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Iran and Al Qaeda are separate beasts. The Sunni Arabs running Al Qaeda are not buddies with the Persian Shiites running Iran. This is a proxy war between Islamic tribes who are willing to fight to the death, and Joe's plan is to pour more American troops into the middle of it.
We needed to go in with overwhelming force in the first place and take advantage of the existing infrastructure to install some kind of stable government. Even if we had done that, the likelihood of a Rwanda kind of situation was high given the history of brutality by the Sunnis against the Kurds and Shiites.
This entire damned situation was created by our going in there in the first place. Back in 2001 Al Qaeda was all over Afghanistan, not Iraq. Now, after thousands of Americans have been killed and wounded, Al Qaeda are in both places.
We don't see the pictures of dead Iraqi women and children on our TVs (or Americans for that matter), but they do in the Arab world. It is an Al Qaeda recruiter's dream.
Be wary of the neoconservatives; no matter what the situation is, their answer will always be the same: send more Americans to die in Iraq.
Iraq is in a state of civil war. Look at Lebanon to predict the future of Iraq. Islamic extremists are willing to do whatever it takes to overcome all others. Those savages will kill each other whether or not we are there.
Why was a Joe Lieberman item listed separately from the equally relevant Kerry/Edwards one? Got anything topical on H. Ross Perot? What would Mo Udall say about this crisis?
Two woman discuss their dinner:
"That was awful. The food was cold and inedible."
"Yes, and such small portions."
The Middle Eastern cultures have perfected their means of social and civil control over thousands of years. Equivalently, if we look back into "Western" civilization, we see that there is enough of Carl Jung's "human archetype" to go around, with lots and lots and lots left over. We tend to overlook the panorama when the focus is on a point that is very dramatic in one way or another. War, civil or otherwise, is probably the most profound human experience, speaking from experience. We seem to have allowed our short sighted politicians to do it all over again. Funny, the British Empire thought they could squash the rabble of the American Revolution with more troops, too!
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