President Bush says we have to “stay the course” in Iraq.
What I want to know is this:
What course?
Not only are we adrift in Iraq, I get the feeling that we’ve never had any direction at all. Bush claims that we’re there to “make Iraq safe for democracy,” but how in the heck are we ever going to know when that is? It’s a vague enough set of goals, and an abstract enough concept, that he can pretty much declare it accomplished at any time or extend this pleasant little skirmish for as long as he pleases.
It makes one think that maybe all those who say it’s about oil are right: “safe for democrary = oilfields secure.”
It’s merely ironic that The Colonies were hardly “safe for democracy” when we became a nation, and that the whole idea of nation was brought into question three-quarters of a century later during the Civil War. But then, we were patriots fighting for self-determination, not “terrorists,” “insurgents” or “anti-coalition forces,” right? Granted, we didn’t blow up civilians with wagons full of black powder . . .
Not only have our methods become unsound, we have no method at all.
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