Dubya is determined to “win” in Iraq, but apparently his definition of winning is woefully out of date; in fact, it’s a 1950s definition. As “The Decider”, he asinine decision to increase the troops on the ground in Iraq (thereby overextending the military) is perhaps the most hubristic act of military inanity since Hilter thought he could overrun Moscow in the middle of the pre-global warming Russian winter!!
I don’t understand why a bicameral legislature – extremely similar to ours, where one house is proportionally represented and the other is a fixed representation – wasn’t in the “Game Plan” from the beginning. Dubya & Crew invaded the country under the aegis of bringing democracy to these wayward sand niggers, and yet the democracy that they wanted to bring (to a country/region that has no philosophical or actual precedence for it) wasn’t even considered; particularly in a region where the feuds and hatreds have been boiling over since before the concept of democracy existed!!! At least with a government similar to our congress (don’t ask me about the executive branch, maybe the two houses choose or there are general elections), the ethno-religious violence that is beyond out of hand (and approaching dastardly disturbing)
Some people say that we (i.e. the US via the Bush Administration) can’t let Iraq tear itself apart, that the vacuum that would appear if the G.I. Joes pulled out would tumble the region into chaos… uh, wasn’t the region circling the chaos drain during Hussein’s reign of terror anyway? If he wasn’t warring with the Islamic revolutionaries in Persia, then he nerve gassing people within his own borders with Sarin and other neurological goodies. It might do the region good, if Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran gobbled up the country – getting the oil out would be hard, and the price per barrel would skyrocket (although it shouldn’t because how much is the global economy getting out of that forsaken land as it is?), but eventually the region would calm down.
Nobody said that the country HAS TO continue to exist… it’s just that in the last 20 years, we’re used to seeing more countries from internal squabbles than less (i.e. break-up of the CCCP, East Timor, Ethiopia split, Czech Republic and Slovakia…), we’d be hard pressed to believe that the disappearance of country would be a good thing for its people. But let’s face it, the Arab Shi’ites would feel comfortable under Arab or Persian Shi’ia control, whereas the Kurds don’t want to be down with the Turks, but ethnically that’s where they belong. With the annexation by the surrounding countries, there is sure to be great amounts of Arab blood shed, but that’s not my concern – as that’s going to happen regardless of the outcome.
This one pundit last night posited the question, if a Marine scout force stumbled upon a Shi’ite militia versus Sunni insurgent firefight, the Arabs where join forces to eradicate the Marines, then go back to fighting themselves… now if that doesn’t sound hopeless, I don’t know what does…
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