As is the case with many big-government do-gooder schemes, the public is finally catching on that the advertised benefits don't outweigh the obscured costs in Iraq. A Washington Post/ABC News poll reports that 56 percent of the American people believe the Iraq war was "not worth fighting" and that 70 percent of the American people believe that any gains from the war have come at an "unacceptable" price. President 43 would have been wise to have read President 6 before embarking on this ill-advised nation-building scheme.
While the war has been politically recast as a "nation-building scheme," the intial justification was to divest Iraq of WMD. In my mind, that was the correct decision. That the intelligence turned out to be incorrect is irrelevant.
Should we now leave Iraq? I don't know. Would the net loss of strategic interest be greater if we left Iraq in its present state or if we continue the new "scheme"?
That may explain the lack of interest in the Potemkin village pagent played out recently at the White House Medal of freedom ceremony.
Try this....
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/12/16/iraq_through_iraqis_eyes/
This just in: My first visit to http://www.flynnfiles.com is my last! 100% of me says it's "not worth reading" isolationist drivel in the post-9/11 world. Blogger Flynn would have been wise to read blogger http://2slick.blogspot.com before embarking on his ill-advised soldier-denigrating scheme.
-CPT Sterbo
Soldier-denigrating? That's a new one, considering that I spent the better part of the last decade as a Marine Reservist.
Good God, are you so wed to your own theories, that you cant see what is in front of your own eyes. These MUSLIM states, are fricken lunatics. Syria, IRAN, are you CONTENT after 9/11 to give them a pass, to allow them to create, train and wholly own entire TERROR ARMIES, and do NOTHING ABOUT THAT. Are you so wed to your own theories, as to become pussillanimous when it comes to annihlating your enemies.
Here is the deal Flynnie, since the late 60s, muslim terror is getting more and more bold. It is a straight line between the early hijackings by muslims in the 60s, and 9/11. September 11 is not the conclusion, it is not the final chapter of which we WILL read, unless we damn well do something.
That something meant MILITARY INVASION. What were you also content with the Clinton way, a few cruise missiles, a few monuments, a few statements that these people will be hunted down. Is that pathetic policy the measure of your manhood. Aren't you Irish, if THE Irish are already infected with morbid defeatism..... Good Grief.
AFTER INVASION, what then, just turn them over to the warlords, because otherwise we might run afoul of "utopic" dreams.... {Cue in the twilight zone music here....}. Of course we are trying to make their society BETTER, read that over again Flynnie, BETTER, NOT PERFECT, NOT HEAVEN ON EARTH, JUST better, not utopic.
Is that a distinction lost on you or something.
You write a book about people who conjure up ideas and allow their minds to become overwhelmed by them. Then you make the same damn mistake. The left has their ideas, you clearly have yours, and the rest of us are trying our damndest to make a tough policy work. And this utter crap about the neocons promising you a rose garden is so damn unworthy of any American. Would you really, REALLY GIVE THESE TERROR DIRTBALLS AND ASSHOLES the satisfaction of seeing America proved feckless and gutless, would you even consider that for half a fricken second..........would you. And for what, just so you could gloat over the likes of Kristol, Perle and Wolfowitz. REALITY CHECK TIME DUDE!!!!
Regime change is the only realistic policy on the table, other than entrusting ourselves, our children, our future, the glory of this country to the bomb. Would you even for half a second consider allowing yourself and your kids, not to mention AMERICA, to be threatened by the damn iranian mullahs and their bomb. You clearly are old enough to remember the carter years, do you really want to see America go back to living under a fear of the BOMB, you want the regular summer marches, the left growing strong upon peoples fears. And this time the bomb will be at the service of the muslim and his desert deity. THEY HAVE WANTED THIS WAR, THEY HAVE BEEN DESPERATE TO ARRANGE THIS WAR, and the only manly American response right now is "I'm your huckleberry." You need a gut check time Flynnie, big time.
