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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
How do we know that won't make the Iraquis think the Insurgency is winning and will be the power in contol, therefore the side to join, before the pullout?  |
The insurgency is fueled only by one thing - American occupation. Conditions being so unstable that Iraq must even import oil. Conditions that will only worsen. This American occupation has made even more central Iraqi cities unsafe for Americans every year. It will only worsen as history demonstrated - be it Vietnam, Lebanon, or Somalia. Even noted by a BBC reporter who could not give his 'year end' summary report from an Iraqi city he could visit one year previous.
Once Americans leave, a serious question is whether Iraqis unite to build a country and government, or will infight. Civil War remains a possibility. And yet honest politicians from Powell, Scowcroft, McCain, Biden, and Graham suggest Iraq must undertake that risk sooner or later. They disagree on when. But that risk must occur before the insurgency gets too strong. Like Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, or the Balkans, outsiders cannot create a solution. Iraq must create a solution. They must risk to earn a government or suffer consequences. Three years and they cannot field enough army or police? Time to sink or swim.
Unfortunately, all this is moot. America is rumored to be doing what was easily predicted by an agenda from Project For A New American Century. Rumors continue of somewhere between 14 and 20+ permanent American bases in Iraq. Clearly George Jr is doing nothing to dispel this - especially since Iran is next on the 'axis of evil' list; an attack that is justified by a George Jr policy of pre-emption. What we should do will not happen because of an extremist Republican agenda to fix the world - whether they want it or not.
Do we stay many more years? If we are needed for many years, then now is the time to make that decision and deploy 500,000 troops - to end the insurgency. Unfortunately we are doing what America also did in Vietnam. Philosophies of William Westmoreland are alive and well among extremists in the Republican Party. Somehow we were going to pervail in Vietnam even as the insurgency only grew. Somehow, just like in Vietnam, people insist this time it is different.
America cannot enforce upon a people what they can only do themselves. And yet George Jr insists we must prevail. Don't forget all those elections that occured in S Vietnam to prove back then we were winning the war.