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Gerecht: The consequences of failure in Iraq
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Jan 22, 2007 09:16am |
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| News Date | Monday, January 22, 2007 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | What would be the consequences of an American withdrawal from Iraq, or a failed Iraq? The Iraq Study Group's report didn't address this.
Here is what would happen: A genocidal, Sunni-Shiite clash as American convoys flee south.
American foreign policy has always been loaded with moral imperatives and ethical restraints, which is why we hate staring into a bloody moral abyss we dug for ourselves. But blaming the mess in Iraq on the Iraqis is simply averting our gaze from what we prefer not to see. The violence in Baghdad is bad and getting worse. For most of official Washington now, Iraq is Vietnam, no possibility of success, thousands of wasted lives, a grim conviction that it would be best to let the ungrateful, pitiless foreigners be. A quagmire with no upside.
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