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January 11, 2007
Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant
The Romans knew how to say things. President Bush has finally figured out that there is a civil war going on in Iraq.
He’s not using those words, but he has picked sides. His address last night put the blame clearly on the side of the Sunnis. And Iran. Why he thinks the Shia mullahs in Iran would be helping the Sunni Arabs in Iraq against the Shia government of Iraq, I don’t know. He has, however, called for a 14% increase in the number of American troops...
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki base of support rests on a foundation of sectarian violence. Specifically, it rests on the Mahdi Army, the one which is currently clearing Baghdad of Sunnis. President Bush now has the choice to either help that effort—and be responsible for Genocide. Or America can hinder the efforts at ethnic cleansing—and cause the Iraqi government to collapse...
The Iraqi PM fears that we’ll go with the second option: it would probably cost Maliki his life. Our choices have come down to A) genocide and B) anarchy; things in Iraq are going to be bad. President Bush thinks 14% more troops will solve this dilemma. He’s wrong. It just adds more American targets to the mess we call Iraq. Perhaps that’s just the price we pay for creating the situation in the first place...
UPDATE:
In all the terror over the proposed Genocide, I forgot:
We're sending another carrier to the Gulf, putting patriot missiles into Iraq, and the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is a Navy guy. This is all saber rattling at Iran. Also "We will work with the governments of Turkey and Iraq to help them resolve problems along their border." We're gonna try to keep Kurdistan from declaring formal independence. Or try to get Turkey to not hate it if they do.
A 4 front war seems... ill advised...
Posted by Andrew at January 11, 2007 11:37 AM