Stay the Course
Another Plan
Republicans claim we have two basic choices, stay the course or withdraw. Stay the course is the Vietnam policy, which cost and additional 55,000 American lives after Under Secretary of State George Ball recognized the quagmire and recommended, we cut our losses. I’ve read that staying the course makes as much sense as a sailor having been blown off course, continuing to blunder aimlessly across the ocean.
Republicans refer to the Democrats as the party of "cut and run" without mentioning that in 1983, Ronald Reagan showed political courage by pulling our troops out of Lebanon after a suicide bomber killed 241 Marines in their Beirut barrack.
Former interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi was once hailed by Bush as the kind of fair-minded leader Iraq needed. Mr. Allawi, who served as prime minister after the American invasion and presently leads a 25 seat secular alliance of representatives in Iraq's 275-seat National Assembly. In early 2006, Allawi said: "It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."
The invasion of Iraq was not about terrorist or WMDs. It was about oil. We went into Iraq with a promise of democracy and anticipated that local cultures would buy into our capitalistic definition of freedom. The majority Shia, who are of the same religious sect as the Muslims in Iran are not going to forget the oppressive Sunni rule under Saddam. Kurds and Sunni are not about to forget thousands of years of tradition and mistrust to now submit to democratic rule by the majority Shia.
The invasion of Iraq was a perfect example of how not to deal with terrorism. Presently, Shia majorities rule from Iran across Iraq and Syria to Lebanon. It’s alarming that the American people are for the most part silent while the Bush regime takes our country down the wrong path.
We should be talking to the leaders of the insurgency. We should disavow any intention to have permanent military bases in Iraq. We should disavow any intention to have permanent rights to the oil. Once we do these things, the Europeans might be willing to come in behind us, which would enable us get out with a measure of grace.
Republicans claim we have two basic choices, stay the course or withdraw. Stay the course is the Vietnam policy, which cost and additional 55,000 American lives after Under Secretary of State George Ball recognized the quagmire and recommended, we cut our losses. I’ve read that staying the course makes as much sense as a sailor having been blown off course, continuing to blunder aimlessly across the ocean.
Republicans refer to the Democrats as the party of "cut and run" without mentioning that in 1983, Ronald Reagan showed political courage by pulling our troops out of Lebanon after a suicide bomber killed 241 Marines in their Beirut barrack.
Former interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi was once hailed by Bush as the kind of fair-minded leader Iraq needed. Mr. Allawi, who served as prime minister after the American invasion and presently leads a 25 seat secular alliance of representatives in Iraq's 275-seat National Assembly. In early 2006, Allawi said: "It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."
The invasion of Iraq was not about terrorist or WMDs. It was about oil. We went into Iraq with a promise of democracy and anticipated that local cultures would buy into our capitalistic definition of freedom. The majority Shia, who are of the same religious sect as the Muslims in Iran are not going to forget the oppressive Sunni rule under Saddam. Kurds and Sunni are not about to forget thousands of years of tradition and mistrust to now submit to democratic rule by the majority Shia.
The invasion of Iraq was a perfect example of how not to deal with terrorism. Presently, Shia majorities rule from Iran across Iraq and Syria to Lebanon. It’s alarming that the American people are for the most part silent while the Bush regime takes our country down the wrong path.
We should be talking to the leaders of the insurgency. We should disavow any intention to have permanent military bases in Iraq. We should disavow any intention to have permanent rights to the oil. Once we do these things, the Europeans might be willing to come in behind us, which would enable us get out with a measure of grace.
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