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By mere coincidence I see it's been a year and a day since a blog entry titled One Hell of a Mess. And things have not gotten better.
Our "allies" are about gone - the US Army and Marines just about standing alone to watch the chaos that is still befalling Iraq. I feel quite sorry for the average family in Iraq - whether Sunni or Shiite every family has lost fathers, sons, uncles, daughters to the violence and it truly is wanton violence. Violence for the sake of violence.
I have no game plan. "We broke it and it's ours to fix." I agreed with that sentiment from Colin Powell but our "fixing it" seems to perpetuate the violence against civilians and I doubt anyone truly thinks that once we exit the insurgents/terrorists won't be able to move in behind us within the week. The Iraqi Army is a name - but as a cohesive fighting force working for the good of the nation of Iraq it's quite problematic.
Iraq itself is an artifice - borne of the late 1920s when the area was divvied up between European powers as mandates - there was never a true nation of Iraq and to hold that as a sacred goal is likely unrealistic. Historically, the tribal peoples found their own territory and the past 60 years may later be regarded as an unnatural interlude in the history of the region.
I don't see the future - don't know where it ends. A sudden withdrawal seems unfair but prolonging what now looks like the inevitable isn't attractive or productive.
The ball is still in George Bush's court and much of the action in the US Congress is posturing and pontificating. This weekend John Warner joined Richard Luger in calling for the beginning to an end. Both well respected mainstream Republicans.
It will be the Republicans not the Democrats who determine the fate of our Iraq policy. If the Senate Republicans continue to waver and peel off one by one in their support of George Bush he will have to join them rather than experience the indignity of seeing his own party join the Democrats in passing veto-proof anti-war legislation.
And so it goes - 7-14-07- Saturday evening from Missouri usa.
Our "allies" are about gone - the US Army and Marines just about standing alone to watch the chaos that is still befalling Iraq. I feel quite sorry for the average family in Iraq - whether Sunni or Shiite every family has lost fathers, sons, uncles, daughters to the violence and it truly is wanton violence. Violence for the sake of violence.
I have no game plan. "We broke it and it's ours to fix." I agreed with that sentiment from Colin Powell but our "fixing it" seems to perpetuate the violence against civilians and I doubt anyone truly thinks that once we exit the insurgents/terrorists won't be able to move in behind us within the week. The Iraqi Army is a name - but as a cohesive fighting force working for the good of the nation of Iraq it's quite problematic.
Iraq itself is an artifice - borne of the late 1920s when the area was divvied up between European powers as mandates - there was never a true nation of Iraq and to hold that as a sacred goal is likely unrealistic. Historically, the tribal peoples found their own territory and the past 60 years may later be regarded as an unnatural interlude in the history of the region.
I don't see the future - don't know where it ends. A sudden withdrawal seems unfair but prolonging what now looks like the inevitable isn't attractive or productive.
The ball is still in George Bush's court and much of the action in the US Congress is posturing and pontificating. This weekend John Warner joined Richard Luger in calling for the beginning to an end. Both well respected mainstream Republicans.
It will be the Republicans not the Democrats who determine the fate of our Iraq policy. If the Senate Republicans continue to waver and peel off one by one in their support of George Bush he will have to join them rather than experience the indignity of seeing his own party join the Democrats in passing veto-proof anti-war legislation.
And so it goes - 7-14-07- Saturday evening from Missouri usa.