Stupid Washington Post and Perhaps it is Time to Exit Iraq
Oct 10th, 2006 by Brian A. Thomas
In contrast to its handling of Iraq, the administration has tried to resolve the North Korean and Iranian nuclear breakouts with diplomacy.
This completely ignores the diplomatic efforts that the US and the United Nations (UN) tried since 1991, over 10 years of diplomacy that failed to do anything. It doesn’t help that the UN would threaten military action a few times a year for all those years but never follow through. How long do people want diplomacy to be tried? Since when is over 10 years of diplomacy not enough?
In the end out cause for going to war was justified. Even if Saddam wasn’t rebuilding his weapons of mass destruction programs, he clearly needed removed since he was torturing hundreds to thousands of his own people every day, and has shown on many occasions that when he did have weapons of mass destruction that he was willing to kill tons of people in the streets for political gain (you may recall the photo I posted some time ago of the two dead children and their mother). Let us not forget that some of those weapons that he did have are now missing.
Anyhow, things are getting bad. There seems to be a growing civil war in Iraq, and it may behoove us to leave sooner then expected. They seem somewhat stable enough to handle it. Odds are Iraq will fracture into a couple countries, but there doesn’t seem much we can do about that ourselves. Our goals were more or less met, and time to let the UN handle the civil war mess.
