Posted by Declan on May 4, 2006, at 23:39:57
In reply to Re: What's the solution? » Declan, posted by Dinah on March 28, 2006, at 21:45:16
From Foreign Policy, May/June 2006. Lt-Gen W. Odom
'The prewar dream of a liberal Iraqi democracy friendly to the US is no longer credible.
No Iraqi leader with enough power and legitimacy to control the country will be pro-American.
Still, the US President g. Bush says the US must stay the course. Why? let's consider his administration's most popular arguments for not leaving Iraq.
If we leave there will be civil war. In reality, a civil war in Iraq began just weeks after US forces toppled Saddam Hussein. Any close observer could see that then; today only the blind deny it.
Iraqis are fighting Iraqis. Insurgents have killed far more Iraqis than Americans. That's civil war. Withdrawal will encourage the terrorists. True, but that is the price we are dooomed to pay.
Our continued occupation of Iraq also encourages the killers precisely because our invasion made Iraq safe for them. Pulling out will most likely result in Sunni groups turning against al-Qaeda and its sympathisers, driving them out of Iraq entirely.'
No good choices
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