Does It Matter More What You Want….
…Or more what you don't want? Polimom, writing over at The Moderate Voice articulates the choices and her decision.
Dick Durbin tells us that Americans want out, and he knows this because the Democrats won the majority in Congress in November. The Democrats, of course, have yet another foreign policy approach, and it includes redeployment out of Iraq, in spite of indications that the most likely outcome will be genocide and/or war across the entire region.
I don’t want that, either.
I opposed the election of George Bush because I vehemently disagreed with his administration’s foreign policy; I still do. Furthermore, I objected to this war from the get-go — but we cannot unspill milk, unbreak eggs, or roll back time.
I don’t know if this proposed “surge” will turn the tide in Iraq, but I am terrified of the likely alternative if we pull out. The resultant slaughter of innocents would be far worse than anything we’ve seen there thus far.
Thus — for the first time since this entire nightmare began, Polimom supports Bush’s proposal. I do so reluctantly, and with very deep reservations. It’s not because I think his ideas are good, but because the likely outcome of the proposed alternative is worse.
Please read the whole thing. She does a very good job on this. As I pointed out yesterday, the situation is what it is: this is the war we've got, not the war we would like (or rather not have had at all). We must not lose for our sake as much as for the sake of the Iraqis who would be slaughtered in the resultant bloodbath. Contrary to Durbin's assessment, the voters did not give the Democrats a mandate to lose a war or to inflict a genocidal bloodbath on Iraq. We cannot just walk away, regardless of what some want.
Blogosphere, Politics, War | Gaius Thursday, 11 January , 2007
By Rightmom, Thursday, 11 January , 2007 @ 2:20 pm
this is the war we’ve got, not the war we would like (or rather not have had at all).
or the war we asked for, this President has always said that we would be on offense and war in Iraq would be the central front and it is. I only see that people remember one of the 5 reasons for the war however they want to remember it WMD was the 3rd reason not the first and this is the war we needed to end islamic terrorist’s from coming here because they were flooding there. Somalia, another case where jihadi’s felt safe and yet again round them up put them in one place and take care of them in large groups, Iraq is the same. Saddam gave large support to terrorists and now he is dead like many of them and more will die and that is the war we want.
By Gaius, Thursday, 11 January , 2007 @ 2:50 pm
I understand the reasons, my point is that it really doesn’t matter anymore. It now comes down to win or lose and the choices we make.