Victory from a sow's ear
A sow’s ear is not going to be made into a silk purse and a tragically mistaken war in Iraq is not going to be fashioned into any kind of victory worth winning. It was a blunder to go into Iraq and it is more of one to stay there.
We need to turn the mess created by George W. Bush and his administration over to the people that live in that part of the world. We have created enough enemies in the area and staying there only creates more.
The contention that our leaving Iraq would cause it to become a haven for terrorists disregards the fact that it is a haven because we are there. Also, if in our absence groups like al-Qaeda were more likely to establish a safe haven, then they already have them in those nations in the area in which we do not have a military presence.
The overwhelming majority of people of nations in the Middle East have no more of a desire to be taken over by terrorists than do an overwhelming majority of people in our country. Our continued occupation of Iraq promotes a grave threat to our nation and the longer we stay there the closer we inch toward antagonizing and radicalizing some unknowns that are going to light the final fuse that will bring massive destruction and chaos into our own land.
Fight them there or fight them here? George W. Bush has repeatedly justified his mistaken venture into Iraq by saying, THERE. Thus he proclaims to nightly-news watchers throughout the world that he is going to use Iraq as a killing field. In this shooting gallery of his choice, Bush enrages people and makes of them enemies that are not fond of losing via collateral damage their loved ones, their homes, their neighbors, their cities, and their lives.
If we cannot work with the nations within the Middle East and the world in establishing and maintaining a stable situation for citizens in those lands, then our faith in common man has been misguide and it is but a fortuitous quirk that this Great Experiment of ours has blundered along for this extended period of time.
To continue to “GO IT ALONE,” is to continue down the dead-ended path to our own destruction, and Pogo will be proven to have been right, “We have met he enemy and he is us.”
