"If you are willing to use force to stop genocide in Darfur (I'm assuming you are), "
you are wrong
I'm not
Genocide is not the unique business of the US. When all the countries of the world want to tackle it, fine, but I'm not for the US doing all the heavy lifting. Firstly, we have a huge deficit, and I don't think we can afford it, and secondly, we look like chumps with our fingers in dikes all over the world, doing the heavy lifting for everyone else.
(I know you won't recall this, even though I say it over and over, but I said the same thing about intervention in the Balkans. I'm not non-interventionist, I'm just frugal- and do not want the US shouldering everything.)
IMO we leave Iraq to the Iraqis. If the world wants to put together a stabilizing force, fine. We should not have invaded, and let the genii out of the bottle, but I don't see why the US has to suffer indefinitely for that mistake. I don't care if it's because of US actions that the Iraqi state falls to civil war. If the Iraqis had the will, they could stop it, and if they don't, they won't.
It's time for a change of government (imo, of course). Even though the democrats have their problems, these last years have been SO bad (from my point of view), I would vote for any democrat- even a quasi republican one like Webb, just to repudiate the policy decisions of the last administration. After Bush I don't know how any republican has the temerity to talk about budgets. |
