However, Cindy Sheehan's gone but the camp up here is even bigger. More and more people are coming from around the country. They now have this enormous setup, Camp Casey. Used to be a couple pup tents, now it's this enormous--we call it the Cirque du Soleil tent with eight spikes, catered meals, a Cindy shuttle, a peace shuttle that takes people up and down the mountain. Right now it's PETA, hippies, Naderites. The question is, if it becomes the Little League dads, Pop Warner moms, then the White House has a big problem.
I think that if I was a panelist on that show it would have ended in a fistfight. I'm really pissed off about this, and I'm not really sure why. He's partially right, but he's also painfully wrong. At least they have a solution. Kevin Drum the other day asked for solutions on Iraq from the liberal community, well here are the facts. It's over, we lost, get over it. Given our current leadership, it was never winnable. Right now, it would take about a million and a half troops to pacify the situation in Iraq. Ain't gonna happen, period. So what are the doable choices?
There is really only one. We gotta run and try to make friends with whoever ends up on top. Any other way to go is simply a path to futility that will be paved with the blood of US soldiers.
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Here is my go at an exit strategy.
We need to move all our troops to secure the borders of Irag, pulling completely from all other regions. The reasoning is we can turn over full control to the Iraqi people and hopefully moderate the outside influences on the violences. With this, we should be able to lower troop levels and transition to a true international force shortly. I agree with the theory that without the US as targets violence levels will go down and daily life will improve thus improving our chances at success.
That would be true in any country not sitting on trillions of dollars worth of oil. Whoever comes out on top in Iraq is gonna be rich, bitch. That kind of coin is worth killing for, and it will be killed for.
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