THE REAL INDICATOR IN IRAQ
MY OPINIONSI was all for the war in Afghanistan, I still am.
Whenever Bush gives a speech like last night, I start to have doubts about my opposition to the Iraq war, for a minute or two at least. He makes some scary points about the aftermath of leaving, which is inevitable anyway. What really is scary, is the fact that he refuses to plan for the event. Kind of saying that such planning would admit defeat.
WHAT? That's just stew-pud!!
Would you enter ANY foreign country without a plan on how to get home? Even if just on vacation? Certainly not.
But....right to the BOTTOM LINE.
THE REAL INDICATOR of the Iraqi's intentions, and therefore any notion of progress is....
the Iraqi congress intending to take a two month break. Two months is almost exactly the amount of time that the congress here is willing to wait to see some (political) progress.
I have said all along, even in moments of doubt, that the Shia led government has never had any intentions of actually cooperating with the USA, unless we call the rampant graft and corruption cooperation.
There, I said it.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/36mnoe
When will he see that even Laura left his side and it's down to him and his dog (as long as he keeps that dog biscuit in his pocket anyway)?
5 million to $15 million in oil revenue dissapears....
DAILY in Iraq.
The need for binding benchmarks is needed, if for no other reason than to get the Iraqi government to declare its bona fides. Should the imposition of benchmarks cause it to veer to the al Sadr side (which I believe it would), then the U.S. can take whatever action it needs to get out. Should the imposition of benchmarks cause the abandonment of al Sadr and his militias, then the U.S. should withdraw to the borders, and let the fight go on among the factions, in a tightly controlled theater, without the interference of outside governments.
An unhappy result, to be sure, but one of our own making. The die was cast in this affair once the first troops began to invade, IMHO.
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