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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (98728)5/21/2003 11:37:09 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
It isn't a matter of "rooting" for Bush to fail in Iraq. It is more a matter of a belief that (a) his (true) motives for the Iraq invasion were a combination of personal revenge and domestic political gain in the elections, and (b) there was little real thought to what would happen after the fall of Saddam's regime. No thought given to the realities on the ground in Iraq. It was excusable in the case of Afghanistan--there the regime was protecting and encouraging Al Qaeda. And you heard almost no protests against the bombing, it was felt necessary to remove the Taliban after they refused to withdraw their support of that group. But the case of Iraq was different. The reason Bush had to keep shifting his motives for the war there was that the true couldn't be admitted to. And that is what people are reacting to. We (I) hope decent things happen in Iraq. But I doubt they will in part (emphasize the words "in part" here) because, fundamentally, this administration doesn't have the real long-term will to make it so. One could argue that in the final analysis it isn't up the Bush admin to make Iraq better, that the Iraqi people have to do this, and this is surely true, but as Friedman repeatedly wrote in his column, the Bush admin broke what was there (however inadequate and unsupportable it was), it bears some responsibility for fixing it.

But the Bush admin doesn't even have the real will to make things better in places like Watts--why should they have the will to make better things happen in Iraq?
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