Iraq Study Report
The Iraq Study Report out today could mean many different things:
1. that the report is a serious study by a group of experienced, earnest and well-meaning individuals who have done their best to take a bi-partisan approach to this bleak situation.
2. that the report is an orchestrated effort by and using former Washington insiders to give President George Bush political cover to change course.
3. that the report is a constructive call on the Bush administration to begin to use international negotiation as an indispensible tool in dealing with foreign relations, something that George H.W. Bush believed completely and his son has ignored.
4. that the report is a barely concealed call to get out of Iraq as soon as possible.
5. that the report is naive or cynical in its assessment that the U.S. will ever leave the Iraqi military and security forces with the ability to avoid absolute chaos for Sunnis and Shiites, and carnage for the Kurds.
6. that the report is an assessment by Texans influenced by the Texans of Brown and Root, probably the major commercial beneficiaries of the Vietnam War and now a subsidiary of Texans at Halliburton, that the good times are over.
Perhaps it's a mix of all of the above. I hope that the above order of importance is correct, with a big emphasis on #1 and an insignificant emphasis on my cynical #6.
1. that the report is a serious study by a group of experienced, earnest and well-meaning individuals who have done their best to take a bi-partisan approach to this bleak situation.
2. that the report is an orchestrated effort by and using former Washington insiders to give President George Bush political cover to change course.
3. that the report is a constructive call on the Bush administration to begin to use international negotiation as an indispensible tool in dealing with foreign relations, something that George H.W. Bush believed completely and his son has ignored.
4. that the report is a barely concealed call to get out of Iraq as soon as possible.
5. that the report is naive or cynical in its assessment that the U.S. will ever leave the Iraqi military and security forces with the ability to avoid absolute chaos for Sunnis and Shiites, and carnage for the Kurds.
6. that the report is an assessment by Texans influenced by the Texans of Brown and Root, probably the major commercial beneficiaries of the Vietnam War and now a subsidiary of Texans at Halliburton, that the good times are over.
Perhaps it's a mix of all of the above. I hope that the above order of importance is correct, with a big emphasis on #1 and an insignificant emphasis on my cynical #6.
posted by John Borden at 8:06 PM
1 Comments:
Bush is retreating from this so fast that it's revolting. Not only is Iraq in chaos, this administration is in complete meltdown with the oh so limited President in the middle. At this point he can only salvage himself with a few by throwing more goodies to corporates and the super rich, and then pardon Schilling like Clinton pardoned the evil Marc Rich.
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