The Only Brave Thing to Do - Cut and Run
Nov 25th, 2006 at 10:19 pm by Susie
Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II.
That’s right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it’s taken the world’s only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad.
And we haven’t even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and 1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute ride. And that doesn’t even include a friggin’ helmet.
Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That’s because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to “win” the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight and die.
No, Michael, it is not a “lost war.” It is not a war at all–it is a bloody political quagmire in which our military has been uselessly deployed.
Calling it a “lost war” is not only wrong but creates an unnecessary impediment to our withdrawal.
Thanks a lot, idiot.
Agreed, somewhat.
Legally, “war” is an action that takes place between two nations, and typically uniformed armies of those nations. We won the war a long time ago.
Legally we have been an occupying army ever since.
We seem to be very good at winning wars but terrible at occupation. Michael Moore is right — you can’t spread democracy at the point of a gun.
Maybe I was a bit hard on Mike but we really have to stop talking about winning and losing and I suspect he does it just to poke the republicans in the eye–satisfying but not helpful.
I agree that you can’t spread democracy at the point of a gun.