<If we drop the unilateral bullshit, we can have all the help we want and badly need.>
I think that depends critically on when we ask for it.
If, the day the statue came down, we had invited the UN in to set up an Iraqi transition government, and supervise elections to hand the country back to the Iraqis, we would have had a lot of help offered.
But if we wait to ask for help, and wait to offer real power to the Iraqis, until a full-blown guerrilla war is well established, it'll be too late. At that point, we won't get any takers, no matter how abjectly we beg, or how many compromises we're willing to make.
The best time to have put together a coalition, was of course before the war. Failing that, with each passing month, it becomes less likely. |
