To the president from a father: Shame on us
From the Boston Globe.
Quotes from the article:
When Barbara's grandfather, George Bush senior, decided in 1991 not to continue the Gulf War into Baghdad, he was roundly criticized for being a "coward."
Most did not consider him to be a coward. Most figured it would be too costly, instead we allowed genocide to continue for more than a decade. That is what we should apologize for.
I digress....
In the end, he was right. He knew that there was a reason not to occupy a country for a prolonged period in an attempt to simultaneously toss out a dictator, find weapons of mass destruction, police the country, establish a new democratic government, and stabilize the entire region. He knew that it could not all be accomplished and that the endeavor would soon become quicksand in the desert.
In hindsight Bush 1 was wrong. We've been in Iraq ever since the end of Gulf War 1. We've been patrolling most of the airspace of Iraq preventing Saddam from further killing his people. The US should have ended Gulf war 1 before 911.
This war is a mistake -- a big mistake. The rest of the world knows it, and in our hearts, so do we. In World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, rich kids, poor kids, college kids, and dropouts all went. They all fought, and hundreds of thousands died. This time it is mainly the poor kids leaving on those planes and coming home in boxes.
What is not debatable is that the current war has been an enormous success. By every historical standard concievable the war has been a cakewalk. The problem is the lack of applying historical standards.
Quicksand in the desert? Does the author remember WW1? the Civil War? Almost any other war of the past 5000 years?
Let me guess, they probably believe being anti-war will change the world into a love-fest?
This war has no personal consequences for most of us who as '60s peaceniks changed the world.
They changed the world? The WOT has no consequences for our world? The antiwar movement is blinded by their hatred of W.
A must read:
This is why we fight
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