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July 30, 2007
"Sustainable Stability"
This article, by two opponents of the Iraq war, is likely to be linked and discussed at lenghy 'round the 'sphere. But I thought it was worth linking.
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The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration's critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.
Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration's miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily "victory" but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
It must have taken a lot of evidence to convince these writers to swim against the rising anti-war tide.
Posted by bill at July 30, 2007 11:47 AM
Comments
I don't think anyone to the right of Cindy Sheehan ever doubted that, given the proper resources, our military would see some sort of progress in Iraq. But at what cost? And for what reward? With the Iraq Legislature out on vacation the whole month of August, and with virtually no progress on ANY of the benchmarks we asked them to reach politically, what does military progress get us? I'm not entirely blaming Iraq here, as some on the right so easily do. The de-Baathification was a disaster and the Iraqis are still recovering. But the point is, even if we stabilize a portion of the country, it is only a temporary respite from the eventual sectarian battle that will ensure once we eventually leave. If in the meantime the Iraqis are not able to reach some political solution -- which they have shown absoutely no sign of accomplishing -- then the thousands of lives and billions (trillions?) of dollars spent are just an exercise in futility and stuborness to change course in the BEST INTERESTS OF THE U.S.
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at July 31, 2007 11:38 AM
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