Timetables
Bush has laid out his plan for "Victory in Iraq." I would call the name of his document contradictory to the actual actions of withdrawing, but I'm trying to keep my opinion balanced on the issue.
Actually, yes. It is contradictory. The 38 page plan outlines phased withdrawals of U.S. troops from Iraq, but here's the kicker. It's not on a timetable. Bush is quoted as saying "No war has ever been won on a timetable."
I find it ironic that he would say that, when he literally forced Iraq into both elections and a constitution, on a timetable. It should be said that a successful democracy was never created on a timetable.
It appears I'm not the only person who's skeptical about this new plan. It's not so much as a new plan, as a rehash of the same thing that the President has been saying for the last year and a half, and the idea that maybe, just maybe, the troops will come home. Bush is adamant about "getting the terrorists," but I don't believe he's really seeing the dynamic that produces them. Maintaining an armed and aggressive force in a foreign nation is like sticking a finger in a beehive, and trying to kill the bees one at a time before they sting back.
War just begets more war, death begets more death. I don't forsee the U.S. extending the olive branch... ever, as their directive has always been to "stand firm against terrorism." In "standing firm," they've become the very thing that they were trying to combat. The current U.S. administration has become a feared global menace that uses terror and torturous practices to fight another feared global menace that uses terror tactics to make their message.
So, if the United States wins the war on terror, and al Qaeda is vanquished, what then?
Actually, yes. It is contradictory. The 38 page plan outlines phased withdrawals of U.S. troops from Iraq, but here's the kicker. It's not on a timetable. Bush is quoted as saying "No war has ever been won on a timetable."
I find it ironic that he would say that, when he literally forced Iraq into both elections and a constitution, on a timetable. It should be said that a successful democracy was never created on a timetable.
It appears I'm not the only person who's skeptical about this new plan. It's not so much as a new plan, as a rehash of the same thing that the President has been saying for the last year and a half, and the idea that maybe, just maybe, the troops will come home. Bush is adamant about "getting the terrorists," but I don't believe he's really seeing the dynamic that produces them. Maintaining an armed and aggressive force in a foreign nation is like sticking a finger in a beehive, and trying to kill the bees one at a time before they sting back.
War just begets more war, death begets more death. I don't forsee the U.S. extending the olive branch... ever, as their directive has always been to "stand firm against terrorism." In "standing firm," they've become the very thing that they were trying to combat. The current U.S. administration has become a feared global menace that uses terror and torturous practices to fight another feared global menace that uses terror tactics to make their message.
So, if the United States wins the war on terror, and al Qaeda is vanquished, what then?
posted by Geoff at 2:37 PM
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