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Thursday, July 26, 2007
If... If... If
By VictorM: It doesn't bother me that some folks still think we can "win" (whatever that means) in Iraq. It bothers me that they base their assertion purely on either repeating the Bush administration talking points and/or because it's purely wishful thinking.So many lives are at risk that to use either of the two reasons to support the Iraq invasion and occupation is vulgar and insane. The sane reality is best expressed in this statement by Fred Kaplan:
If the U.S. military had, say, 100,000 more troops to send and another 10 years to keep them there; if the Iraqi security forces (especially the Iraqi police) were as skilled and, more important, as loyal to the Iraqi nation (as opposed to their ethnic sects) as many had hoped they would be by now; if the Iraqi government were a governing entity, as opposed to a ramshackle assemblage that can barely form a quorum—then maybe, maybe, this plan might have a chance.There are no magic wands. The disaster will just linger until the next president decides to do something different. That's a lot of time, lots of lives, and lots of lies until that time.
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