| really.. there seems to be very little thinking going on on their part.. it's just this shallow, "kill 'em all", mentality. we've been killing terrorists and civilians for years now, and like you said, no real decrease in the insurgency whatsoever. that alone proves that apeman's living in bush's fantasyland.
also, underbear has a point about iraq possibly becoming a satellite of iran. i'm not sure how likely it is, but it's definitely a possibility. that's a hell of a lot of oil production power for radical islam. and adding in the specter of a nuclear iran just adds to the worries.
definitely no easy answer to this and that's probably why nobody (regardless of ideology) seems to have a real plan to solve this quagmire. the "stay the course" policy could eventually result in some sort of status quo whereby people begin to accept their new reality.. to get that hypothetical reality, we'll have to pay much more in blood and treasure.. to up and leave would create a huge power vaccuum, which would likely result in a civil war (and iran would probably participate in such a war)..
i kind of like murtha's approach of withdrawing our troops and having them stationed in nearby states.. they'd be there "just in case"... |