re: The commanders in Baghdad and the Pentagon are "looking at the big picture all the time, but for us, we don't see no big picture, it's just always another bomb out here," said Spec. Joshua Steffey, 24, of Asheville, N.C.
I think that's wishful "big picture" thinking.
We never should have done Iraq. If we did Iraq, we should have gotten out right after we toppled Hussein, and told them "OK it's yours to govern but if you put in another Saddam we'll be back". That might have "worked". But since we didn't do that, we should have gotten out when the "insurgency" started, what, 3 years ago. Should have recognized that the US doesn't do unpopular occupations. But we didn't.
So what now? We have created the worst hell hole on the face of the planet. If we stay it just going to be more of the same, getting slightly worse week by week. Until we leave. If we leave now, I'm getting convinced that the carnage is going to be massive. And in the end we'll have the worst fundamentalist theocratic terrorist producing state in the world.
The Neo's have painted us into the worst corner imaginable. They've squandered our wealth and our soldiers, our world wide respect and moral standing. And left us with no decisions that don't have horrific results.
Iraq will go down as one of the worst policy mistakes in world history.
John |
