We've now reached our third full year in Iraq. Oh, and what a difference three years makes! That we only just launched the biggest air assault inside the countyr since the beggining of the war is being taken as a hopeful sign. I always assumed the better things are going the less the need for giant military operations, but I guess that just shows my ignorance.
I believe in the American tradiition the third-year anniversary gift is leather. I don't think leather would make a good present at the moment; leather is a poor choice of clothing in the desert sun, and it would probably be taken as a very tasteless reference to Abu Ghraib and and a certain leather leash.
Now, it would of course be better if there was no sectarian violence in Iraq But there are very powerful international interests at work here which have turned Iraq into a battleground for control of the oil and the people. What they all - Americans, Iranians, al-Qaeda, etc. - agree on is that they don't want Iraq to be independent. Shoot, with their relatively educated, secular populace and vast oil resevres, we could have a real force on our hands.
And, even if you think it was 'worth it', was this really the best possible way we could've spent hundreds of billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands upon thousands of Iraqi and American lives? Aren't there other people who could've been far more liberated with far lesser expenditures? Just wondering...
2 comments:
Are you saying we ought to go to Iran? ;)
Let's hope the neo-cons learned their lesson. Let's also hope we can achieve "victory" as soon as possible and bring our men and women home.
Quite a few neo-cons have been making moves recently. When we pull out of Iraq, they might prove hard to find, or maybe the rest of us will be blamed for undermining the efforts.
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