Seriously... God Help Us!
I received the following e-mail from 'A Reader' regarding my last post on the Iraq War — great points throughout:
Well-
I'd say you're on the right track, but there just isn't a simple way out of Iraq. Both staying and leaving have the potential of creating huge problems in regional &/or world politics. The real solution is impossible. It would involve either the invention of a time machine or Superman spinning the world backwards fast enough for us to go back to March of 2003 and not ever invade in the first place.
But (I am very sorry to say) I have to agree with Steve to some extent. SCARY! Considering the place we are RIGHT NOW just pulling out is --in my opinion-- not a very good option. Pulling out too quickly would create a vacuum, which would in turn almost undoubtedly spiral into a full blown civil war and the fracturing of Iraq into separate nations of Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish nationalities. (Splitting up Iraqi sovereignty actually might be a good thing -- however a civil war is not the way to go about it!) If the Kurds get there own country in Northern Iraq, then the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, & Iran are going to want their independence as well. & considering that a united Kurdistan would be very, very, very wealthy in terms of oil and natural gas: Iran, turkey, Syria and southern Iraqis will not let that happen without a fight (a potentially HUGE regional conflict of a fight! Bad news!)
That doesn't even take into effect the potential of the Iraqi Shiite majority forming a coalition with Shiite Iran. A unified Shiite theocracy of Iran & Southern Iraq is also a very scary scenario.
On the other hand, I sure as hell don't want to still be talking about what to do with Iraq when I'm thirty. And If we don't change course soon, we're going to be involved there (& probably Iran and Syria) for the next 10 to 20 years. Neither option
is very promising.
The bottom line, however, is this: Until we as a nation have a change in leadership, things aren't going to get better. Now
I don't care whether we get Clinton or McCain or Trump, but we HAVE to get rid of Cheney/Rumsfeld/& Bush!!! The congress should ask for the resignation of all three! And if they won't quit themselves then they should be impeached for not upholding article VI. of the US constitution!
Seriously....God Help US!
Well-
I'd say you're on the right track, but there just isn't a simple way out of Iraq. Both staying and leaving have the potential of creating huge problems in regional &/or world politics. The real solution is impossible. It would involve either the invention of a time machine or Superman spinning the world backwards fast enough for us to go back to March of 2003 and not ever invade in the first place.
But (I am very sorry to say) I have to agree with Steve to some extent. SCARY! Considering the place we are RIGHT NOW just pulling out is --in my opinion-- not a very good option. Pulling out too quickly would create a vacuum, which would in turn almost undoubtedly spiral into a full blown civil war and the fracturing of Iraq into separate nations of Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish nationalities. (Splitting up Iraqi sovereignty actually might be a good thing -- however a civil war is not the way to go about it!) If the Kurds get there own country in Northern Iraq, then the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, & Iran are going to want their independence as well. & considering that a united Kurdistan would be very, very, very wealthy in terms of oil and natural gas: Iran, turkey, Syria and southern Iraqis will not let that happen without a fight (a potentially HUGE regional conflict of a fight! Bad news!)
That doesn't even take into effect the potential of the Iraqi Shiite majority forming a coalition with Shiite Iran. A unified Shiite theocracy of Iran & Southern Iraq is also a very scary scenario.
On the other hand, I sure as hell don't want to still be talking about what to do with Iraq when I'm thirty. And If we don't change course soon, we're going to be involved there (& probably Iran and Syria) for the next 10 to 20 years. Neither option
is very promising.
The bottom line, however, is this: Until we as a nation have a change in leadership, things aren't going to get better. Now
I don't care whether we get Clinton or McCain or Trump, but we HAVE to get rid of Cheney/Rumsfeld/& Bush!!! The congress should ask for the resignation of all three! And if they won't quit themselves then they should be impeached for not upholding article VI. of the US constitution!
Seriously....God Help US!
posted by Strother | 11:56 AM
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