Just saw in Sun paper an editorial from a conservative journalist, Charles Krauthammer, who always supported the war in Iraq. He says that with US mismanagement we have deepend the divide between Sunni and Shiite and Kurd. And that those are not the only factions, there are dozens of sub factions in each position, along with the plain old thugs and would be war lords vying for a piece of power. Just like you and I would do, join an organization that would protect our neighborhood, our family.
He wrote "the whole sorry affair illistrates not just incompetence but the ingrained sectarianism of the Maliki govenment. We should not be surging American troops in defense of such a govenment.
Maliki should be made to know that if he insists on having this sectarian war he can well have it wiithout us."
How can the US justify entering into a conflict that has NO chance of winning. Either crush all opposition and occupy or pick one side and back them to crush everybody else, kind of like the situation that was there with Saddam. This is a stacked deck, it is just like Vietnam, it maybe could have worked at one time (I doubt it) but not now. We have squandered all good will, we have just become another faction. Is this "cut and run" or cutting out a cancer. If you can't win, don't play. I personally don't care about Mr. Bush's legacy, only our guys and our money. A good man, a good leader would know this. The very bottom line is that if you give a people the means to become free, that is enough.
