You complain about it, but like the rest of your liberal friends, you don't have an viable alternative.
At the moment, the best outcome I can see is, as I said, a federated state--Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, and Shias in the south. Both center and south as theocracies; with the center a very turbulent, possibly broken state, at a low level conflict with its neighbors.
And, what is most troubling about this outcome, is that the minority populations in each region are likely to be driven out. That's my sense about ethnic cleansing.
The worst outcome, which seems increasingly likely, is the open civil war which draws in other regional states, particularly Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
It looks to me as if the Bush administration has concluded it will accept just any momentary solution that will let them withdraw troops and save as much face as possible.
But I've typed all this before.
I just noticed a brief article in Yahoo that Biden and McCain are calling for more US troops. |
