Change of Heart
Sep 26th, 2005 at 1:47 pm by Susie
Things in the Sunni Arab areas are getting worse, not better.
I conclude that the presence of the US ground troops is making things worse, not better.
Let’s get them out, now, before they destroy any more cities, create any more hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons, provoke any more ethnic hatreds by installing Shiite police in Fallujah or Kurdish troops in Turkmen Tal Afar. They are sowing a vast whirlwind, a desert sandstorm of Martian proportions, which future generations of Americans and Iraqis will reap.
The ground troops must come out. Now. For the good of Iraq. For the good of America.
Go read the whole thing.
It is good to see that Juan Cole, who has for far too long insisted that there should not be anything remotely resembling a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq, has finally recognized the fact that it is now time for the U.S. to leave Iraq, sooner rather than later. Now that Cole has seen the light, perhaps there may be hope for quasi-liberals such as Al Franken and Bill Maher, who are such staunch advocates of Bush’s and Kerry’s and Biden’s and Clinton’s position, which is that the U.S. must never change the course but must, instead, always “stay the course”, which is simply asinine.
“I conclude that the presence of the US ground troops is making things worse, not better.”
I and many others concluded that two years ago.