Another cut and runner
posted by Twba
General Odom, director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, says it's time to cut and run from Iraq.
General Odom, director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, says it's time to cut and run from Iraq.
I won't argue with him. I've been thinking the same thing since Saddam slithered out of a hole in the ground.
Gen. Odom writes:
The prewar dream of a liberal Iraqi democracy friendly to the United States is no longer credible. No Iraqi leader with enough power and legitimacy to control the country will be pro-American. Still, U.S. President George W. Bush says the United States must stay the course. Why?...
If we leave, there will be a civil war. In reality, a civil war in Iraq began just weeks after U.S. forces toppled Saddam. Any close observer could see that then; today, only the blind deny it. Even President Bush, who is normally impervious to uncomfortable facts, recently admitted that Iraq has peered into the abyss of civil war. He ought to look a little closer. Iraqis are fighting Iraqis. Insurgents have killed far more Iraqis than Americans. That's civil war.
It's time to let the civil war proceed to completion. Let the Iraqi victors kill Zarqawi and make peace. We probably won't like the final result. Sharia is not my idea of freedom, but is the most likely outcome. That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
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