A Few Questions
President Bush has been out stumping on his rationale for the war this past week. Touting himself as the Educator in Chief, he has been explicating the decison making processes in the White House. Not surprisingly, the usual round of suspects have been criticizing the effort.I for one, wish the administration would have undertaken this task sooner. You know, the whole a charge unanswered thing..... I think a more proactive strategy could have raised the level of debate in this country, but I guess it's better late than never.
Now all that aside, I have a few questions that I would like to see answered (note: If you are having trouble commenting, download Firefox, and come in that way, rather than explorer) and they are thus: If we, as a certain senator has called for, pull out all of the troops by year end, how does that help the Iraqi people? How would such a decision effect the GWOT? What message does this send our enemies?
posted by Grisby @ 9:26 AM
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Hey, your blog feels like letting me comment. If you are interested in my thoughts, I would refer you to the discussion under "Strange Bedfellows" posted in August. We digressed a ton in that conversation and never really did address exit strategies which I think we both agree is necessary. I have been on a bit of a media fast so I haven't heard the latest and greatest. Has it changed at all?
Cool.
Long time, no hear. Yes, a viable exit strategy is needed; however, I am referring to the latest senate floor call to cut & run.
One other thought and this is the rub: what are the underlying factors to cause terroristic aggression, against the United States (such as embassy bombings, the USS Cole, and of course 9/11)?
Some would say oil, some would say Israel, some would say a broader imperialisitic foreign policy. I think it can be stated much simpler. Charles Krauthammer, in his WaPo oped piece for March 28, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/27/AR2006032701298.html
reiterates a previous statement from a speech he gave at the Amercian Enterprise Institute a few years ago.
On the necessity of Iraq in attacking the underlying causitve factors to 9/11, he asserts: "The cauldron of political oppression, religious intolerance, and social ruin in the Arab-Islamic world -- oppression transmuted and deflected by regimes with no legitimacy into virulent, murderous anti-Americanism."
In a nutshell, such regimes, and radical islamo-facism, poison the minds of their populace. Democracies don't attack democracies, and a more open Middle East, serves our foreign policy intersts.
This is why the President is spending all of his political capital on the war, why we must succeed, and why a cut & run approach will be damnably ruinous at best.
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