Consider how you feel about the Virginia Tech massacre. Just ponder it for a minute. As a country we are deeply affected by these events. We want to get to know the victims. We want to understand why someone would do this monstrous deed. We slowly heal, accepting that these things happen and we need to appreciate what we have. In other words, we take a negative situation and learn something positive from it through a grieving process.
Now, put that image of the massacre back in your mind. Image it happens at least once a week, on a good week. Sadly, 150 Iraqis were killed in a series of four bombings recently. That is five times the number of deaths in the Virginia Tech tragedy. There is little to no time between tragedies. No healing.
So what is my point?
Many feel that we went into Iraq unjustly. Did Bush lie? The answer is obvious. No. But! But! We never found weapons of mass destruction!
Exactly. If Bush did not believe that Saddam had WMDs, we would have found them. Allow me to explain. When you lie, you act to cover that lie. Had Bush been knowingly wrong about WMDs, the military would have brought WMDs with them into Iraq. They would have buried them in the sand and a month later “discovered” them. No WMDs means that Bush is still honest.
We did the right thing to invade.
However, there is a huge problem. Iraq has turned into something unhealthy and dangerous. If we want to stabilize Iraq, we need to do something extreme. The last thing we need to do is leave. We need to up the ante. We need to leave the green zone and control the violence. This will lead to troop loss. This will lead to increased attacks. This will ultimately lead to victory.
We need to stop abandoning reason out of fear of sounding unsympathetic. Iraq celebrated when the invasion was over. We dropped the ball. It is time to pick the ball back up and take the country back for the Iraqis.
2 comments:
The politicians need to get out of the fight. We need to let the generals clean that place up. A politically correct war strategy is going to get us all killed. We as Americans don't really understand sacrifice, so until about 100k or more of us die, will we truly understand what the hell we are up against and restore order to this insane mess.
Spend your life teaching a dog to fight and then making it fight other dogs for you. You should expect that dog to be mean, angry, and violent. One day decide you no longer want that dog to fight but would rather treat it as an equal, a friend and don't be suprised if it meets your hug with a bite.
The United States (of which I am a proud and loyal citizen) made alot of mistakes in the middle east in it's cold war. Not only that, but many other nations manipulated that part of the world long before the US even had 50 states. Aside from that, it's a diffrent culture with diffrent ways at looking at the world.
Our biggest mistakes in IRAQ was trying to make them see the world through american eyes. And ignoring the past. The reasons why we went to war don't matter, were there now. We need to fix our mistakes and leave the country a better then we found it. That dosen't mean it has to be a democrocy, it simply means a country no longer manipulated by others.
Joe Gats
www.teammangakitty.com
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