Mission Accomplished?
Since landing in his jet pilot costume on April 30, 2003 to congratulate everyone on accomplishing the mission of kicking out Sadaam, the US has lost 2,108 troops killed; 15,881 wounded.
Just keeping this in mind.
Just keeping this in mind.
posted by Anonymous at 11:56 AM
3 Comments:
yes, keep it in front of the blogger constituency. actually, i wish it were in front of joe six pack, who probably doesn't know any blogs, all the time. that's absolutely the last thing i would've done, break iraq, or any fake state. there is nothing now holding those groups together, no basis for a united post-saddam state. the same thing happened to yugoslavia after tito turned out to be mortal.
but now we're waist deep in the big muddy, like it or not. we can't undo it. how do we exit this thing, finesse this thing, work it around so that this war doesn't become a complete fiasco for all concerned? how can we keep the shiites from revenge killings in sunni villages? how can we neutralize sunni attacks against us? how can we keep the kurds from freelancing with foreign oil companies and preparing to break away from the others, thereby threatening us with World War III in bringing down the wrath of turkey and syria?? put on that blogger thinking cap...
That's the damnable thing of it all. There's no way of getting out now without watching Iraq fall into civil war and chaos. If there had been some, any, kind of plan going in for this, fine. But the way we've screwed it up so far, just leaving screws the Iraqis even more than staying would. I'd love to be able to say, let's just pull all the troops out now. I wish we could. They want us out. We want us out. I have no answer for this mess.
right. i was just rereading the last days of the johnson administration, where it was decided that withdrawal was unthinkable, and every other choice--more bombing, more troops, more money, more carrot-and-stick, more advisers--promised a really unsatisfactory outcome. when are people going to get the idea that elective war--or, in that case, non-war--is a loser? ANY war is a loser, so why would you go LOOKING for one?
"so lyndon johnson told the nation, have no fear of escalation, I am trying everyone to please...though it isn't really war, i'm sending 50,000 more, to help save vietnam from vietnamese..."
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