First of all, the violence is in creasing in Iraq while we are there.
For one.. notice that the violence has increased signicantly since it became clear that Democrats would win congressional seats and use their newly won power to withdraw coalition forces from Iraq. This was a sign of weakness and insurgents on both sides have taken advantage of it to increase their struggle to become the dominant power in the country.
And now we have Democratic leadership trying to tell us that Al Qai'da fighters are Shi'a, and beginning to agree that more forces, not fewer, are necessary to prevent Iraq from collapsing into utter (and not just contained) chaos. It's pretty clear, as I've often stated, that none of you have a plan for ending the violence, nor do you have a plan for preventing Iraq being dominated by Islamic Jihadist (sunni or shi'a). All you can do is criticize current efforts and use your bully pulpit to advance your partisan political agendas, no matter what the repercussions.
I'm telling you that when you remove the "hammer" which is necessary to "pound" down these insurgent groups when they mass, you're going to quickly discover what TRUE VIOLENCE is.
The Saudis are telling us the same thing. We leave and they will provide open support to the Sunni insurgents and turn this into a Sunni-Shi'a civil war. And you can't help but understand that that this will then involve Iran entering in on the Shi'a side.
You haven't even BEGUN to see violence, DTK, until that happens. (god forbid).
Neither the Saudis, nor any other Sunnis in the region, will sit still and permit Iran to create and support a Shi'a Islamic state on their borders.
Thus, the only solution is one where Sunnis, Kurds, and Shi'a all share power in Iraq.
Hawk |
