"Whatever good they are doing in Iraq, though, it doesn't make me any more comfortable with our invasion- with the reasons for it, with the destabilization of the region, and with the likely results in terms of the government of Iraq, and in terms of the sectarian problems that seem to be in a downward spiral."
What do you perceive the reasons for the liberation of Iraq to be?
Destabilization is an interesting choice of words. It is destabilizing the tyrannical dictatorships. Are you implying that tyranny is good, or merely assuming that tyranny will be replaced by something worse?
"in terms of the sectarian problems that seem to be in a downward spiral."
Based on all measures the downward spiral seems to be a downwards spiral for the terrorists. Iraq has been a terrorist bug zapper, and a great number of the foreign terrorists seem to have been zapped already.
We worked with Iraqis to clean out Fallujah, and it has not since descended into the terrorist anarchy that it had been. We cleaned out Mosul after the survivors from Fallujah regrouped there. Many of them did not survive that encounter, and most of those that remained regrouped along the Syrian Border. We cleaned out that region, and it has been much calmer since.
Everywhere we have worked with the Iraqis to unseat the terrorists has remained a much more peaceful place since the effort.
People who have a vested interest in the failure of Iraq criticize the time line of democracy. For perspective, how long did it take to ratify the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights? |
