Even if we can successfully install democratic republics in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, what makes us think they can keep them?
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Paul Krugman and his liberal confreres still yearn to play with their toys in fairyland. [...] An incomplete and unratified partition on the ground in Iraq is a dangerous situation. [...] In retrospect, George Herbert Walker Bush seems like a genius for not deposing Saddam Hussein and occupying Iraq. A review of John Agresto's Mugged By Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions. [...] Bored by playing God, Congress now plays admiral and general in Iraq. [...] I spent the vast majority of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area and what I saw wasn't pretty; it was an unbridled, dedicated, unreasoning and unreasonable hatred of America and all that it stands for. The present defeatist attitude; the belief that we “can't win” in Iraq, is nothing more than a [...] We tried it in the United States from 1781 until the Constitution was ratified in 1789. [...] We hear different arguments for foreign intervention, generally falling under the categories of nationalist and internationalist, but many of them relying on a little of both. The initial justification for the Iraq War was to protect Americans from weapons of mass destruction; after that collapsed, the war become a Wilsonian campaign to bring about freedom and [...] Those who equate Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan with Code Pink could not be further from the truth. [...] An American withdrawal from Iraq can only result in increased slaughter and human suffering, as did the US withdrawal from Vietnam. [...] The U.S. adventure in Iraq cannot have a happy ending. [...] In March of 1975 the anti-war Congress voted to cut off all aid to South Vietnam, thus sealing the fate of our ally. [...] The American Civil War offers a better lesson on how to deal with guerrilla insurgencies than most previous wars that the U.S. has waged. [...] That Congress spurns the 9/11 Commission should be no surprise: it approves every general then snubs them, too. [...] Is it the purpose of American foreign policy to force democracy on Iraq through long-term occupation? [...] Most of the U.S. public does not seem to notice that its government’s actions have exacerbated or even created foreign threats, which that same government then says it needs more resources in order to counter. [...] Those in Congress who advocate a withdrawal from Iraq do not understand the threat posed by radical Islam. [...] After five years of relentless anti-war reporting, two events last Sunday signalled a possible turnaround in the way the 'mainstream media' covers the war. [...] A full blown Iraqi civil war that drags in neighboring states would be bad for Iraqis, but it would have only minimal effects on U.S. security. [...] The commandant asks that stories tell themselves. He is overruled by those who rule over stories. [...] According to NBC News, since April 2003, when the initial U.S. military action was over, the United States has taken in a scant 535 Iraqi refugees. [...] Merely suggesting the long-term establishment of U.S. military bases in a historically significant Muslim country will confirm to the Islamist radicals that the U.S. desire for a continued land-based military presence in the oil-rich Persian Gulf was the administration’s real objective in invading Iraq. [...] Facing down terror in Iraq, 2007, in a global conflict that safely may be labeled "World War III," our next step could not be more self-evident: America must prevail. [...] Every member of Congress should be required to read Ali A. Allawi's The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. [...] As was the case in the World War II Pacific Theater, the Islamic enemy’s disregard for any human or Judeo-Christian standard of morality makes the application of normally acceptable jus in bello criteria absolutely impossible and therefore inapplicable. [...] |
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