"We are leaving behind a stable and self-reliant Titanic."
President Obama needs an aircraft carrier to declare "Mission accomplished in Iraq." Isn't that what he said a few days ago when the last US troops drove into Kuwait? Didn't he say that he have left behind a stable and self-reliant Iraq? Today, the Sunnis and Shia are back at it killing each other. Here is a Fox News report on the latest wave of bombings that hit Baghdad.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/12/22/explosions-rock-baghdad-7-killed-3-injured/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews
Here is what Obama told troops at Fort Bragg, NC a few days ago.
"Of course, Iraq is not a perfect place, but we are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq....."
Senator John McCain, of course, is expressing his disagreement, but what does Obama care? As he told McCain a couple of years back, he-not Mccain- won the election.
So there is nothing to do but sit back and enjoy the show. History will judge whether presidents Bush and Obama did the right thing. Iraq is now, for better or worse, part of the "Arab Spring".
Iraq has little or nothing to do with the Arab spring. It would be interesting to speculate how the Arab spring might have overwhelmed Hussein al-Takriti, if he were still around to face it.
ReplyDeleteBush shouldn't have gone in, and Obama was right to get out. Any president would try to put a gloss on it for the troops. They are entitled to feel good about their sacrifice, albeit it was criminal for their government to ask them to make it for such a poorly planned and unworthy venture.
If you weren't looking for opportunities to slam President Obama, you would point out, as you have on many other occasions, that it is neither effective nor worth while to pour American tax money and lives into building a nation that isn't supported by the people who live there.
Iraqis are going to have to solve this for themselves, however much their mis-steps may make us cry.