http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18258/article_detail.asp
>>And I really think that we have to be serious about the fact that the U.S. is the problem. It's not the solution. What we have done in Iraq is unleash a set of dynamics for which there is potentially, I hate to sound cynical, but for which there is potentially no solution. That country could face a civil war that goes on for decades. There's no way that the U.S. can control that. The longer the U.S. is there, the more brutal its tactics will be, and the more civilians will die.>>
To which I reply, the civil war scenario is one possibility the occupation now pursues (always was) in order to break Iraq up into manageable parts if it can't get what it wants. Iraq has a civil war now because of one reason: the US's Occupation. And the conflict pits collaborators against a legitimate Resistance that will fight to keep Iraq together. The other side of the US's 'perfect plan' is to show the world how illegitimate the resistance is, hence the need for bogeymen like al-Zarqawi (whom they handily resurrected from his death in 2003 when he was supposed to have been bombed into oblivion on air raid against Ansar al-Islam, a group that basically started as Islamist Sunni Kurds).
>>I have come to this conclusion very, very carefully. Many of my friends on the left were much earlier were calling for U.S. withdrawal. It is with much reluctance that I have come to the position that I really think that the U.S. does have to pull out as soon as possible because the U.S. cannot stabilize the situation. The U.S. is exacerbating the situation. Yes, the U.S. will leave Iraq as a complete disaster. As rubble, as a pile of corpses with probably some sort of civil war going on. But staying there exacerbates it and helps spread this further into the region.>>
Why all that RELUCTANCE, Christian? Because you are so wise and well-informed and rational? Unfortunately, many of your friends on the left were viewed as unreasonable and cliche'd and given awards for that. You are not going to excoriate the US government for leaving Iraq in a pile of rubble. That was always the major contingency plan. Which brings me back to my point about nihilism on display and the effrontery of some people looking for it in ALL THE WRONG PLACES.
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