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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I don't know why people see Iraq as a failure. It's a challenge, but in large part it's a challenge because in the past we've not stood up to challenges.
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Fallujah? Obviously a pit of problems, but we can certainly clean it out if we gain the resolve to do so.
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Your criticisms of Kerry would ring much less hollow if you didn't say stuff like this. After all, you do support the folks that are currently running the show over there. They have had an opportunity to stand up to this challenge, but I haven't seen much standing up, except when they overrule the judgment of the military folks on the ground (and Hello, let us not forget) who wanted to finish the job they started in cleaning the place up.
What exactly is Bush's plan? "Step 1: Gain resolve"? "Step 2: More airstrikes against suspected terrorist targets based on limited intel"? In other contexts you have made light of such tactics.
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Sadr? Ultimately a punk who hijacked his supposed religion's most holy shrine. He will fade in popularity
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Nice touch.
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If what has happened so far kills our resolve, we are in huge trouble.
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I agree. There is only one way out of Iraq, and that is making it work as best we can despite all that has gone before. Winning the peace, in short. But that is no reason to give the keys to our country back to the folks that set us on this $250 billion boondoggle in the first place.
