One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back

The insurgency in Iraq is "about where it was a year ago," in terms of attacks, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday, but he also asserted that American and Iraqi troops are "gaining ground" in the two-year-old conflict. Yeah, right (not). It was a quagmire two years ago and is worse now. $300 billion and counting (it was only $150 billion last September) and we're not out yet. "Shock and awe" has been transformed into long lines of flag-draped coffins, pictures suppressed by the military in order to avoid letting the American people know the real price of this occupation.

I am all for spreading democracy and freedom, and am overjoyed that America is finally -- after many decades of Machievallian foreign policy -- fighting against fascism and tyranny. But in Iraq we're engaged, pure and simple, in nation-building to protect the human rights of people who bascially either hate or are indifferent to us. Who cares? Let them rot in the desert. We knocked off Saddam Hussein -- a very good thing -- so let's get the hell out of there, leave Iraq to the Iraqis, and go after the real "Axis of Evil" in the world. How about Al Qaeda, you morons!!

 Posted by glenn