Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Politicians - Protecting their own futures?
I found this in the Washington Times.
It rings true to me...
It rings true to me...
At RealClearPolitics.com, Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough close their article with this:
"An Army Green Beret told us:
'The Iraq Study Group has taken a chapter out of our old playbook in Vietnam known as 'Vietnamization.' It predictably failed then, as this will now. The Democrats and Republicans now have a policy which will protect their candidates in future elections. As a bipartisan document, it is a politically marvelous way of abandoning Iraq without paying the political price at home as the party that lost the war.
'Iraq will not be capable of fielding a national army capable of providing security in three years, regardless of how many advisers we provide. The supposedly secret 'three courses of action' to 'go big, go long, or go home' have been discussed for years at all levels. The only politically viable solution to stabilizing Iraq has always been to 'go long' and dig in for a decade of nation building. That course of action is contingent upon the will of the American people, however, and the report represents the belief that we have already lost our will.
'The report proposes a politically palatable method of disengaging and going home without paying the full political price at home. The tragedy is that we chose to destroy that country and are now choosing to leave it in ashes. It is shameful. When the jihadis arise from this debacle and once again bring terror to American soil, as they rose from the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan and delivered us 9/11, we will have only ourselves to blame.'"
