It looks like Republicans are finally abandoning ship on Bush’s Iraq policy. Hopefully they will latch onto a more moderate policy short of withdrawal, rather than allowing Iraq to continue brewing a new generation of terrorists.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001424.html
While I’m not crazy enough to support the Iraq War – I promise I thought it was flawed from the beginning – I am one of the increasingly few people who support trying to stick around a little longer. I realize the American people were sold on the war with what turned out to be lies, but some very intelligent people supported it for a completely different, valid reason: in the wake of 9/11, we finally acknowledged the need to shift the dynamic of geopolitics in the Middle East. Unfortunately, the Bush crowd tried to take the short-cut with clean break, domino-theory democratization. Despite the failure of those policies, the need to shift geopolitics remains. Because of the failure of those policies, we are forced to continue the Iraq War to prevent one problem from sprouting in the place of another. In the words of Colin Powell, we broke it and now we have bought it. Iraq was not a serious problem until we made it one of the many we now face.
Forgive the oversimplification, but Saudi money continues to fund Islamist terrorism that will continue to be directed at the United States until we withdraw our support for Middle East regimes and allow civil wars to commence. That isn’t happening anytime soon. Instead, the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group could serve as a good first step. A more proactive policy could yield even better results.
In exchange for one comment to this blog, I would post my suggestion for a “more proactive policy.” I prefer to think of this as effectively allotting my time rather than a shameless plea for validation.
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