I should have posted this yesterday, but something not at all surprising has happened.
Excerpt:
President George W. Bush signed a deal yesterday intended to lead to a more normalized, long-term relationship between the United States and Iraq by the time he leaves office, but it left unsettled questions of how many and how long U.S. forces would remain.
Translation: We ain't leaving for the foreseeable future.
This should be troubling to anyone that is a proponent of limited government. We have essentially signed on to babysit a fractured, war-torn country for an indefinite time period. We also continue to operate under the absurd assumption that the Iraqis want to live under a Western Democracy. Moreover, we continue to treat all enemies of U.S. occupation as an amorphous entity. But this is not the case. We most RECENTLY have joined with former Sunni extremists to drive out Al-Qaeda. The problem with that strategy is that as Al-Qaeda diminishes these new sketchy allies will set their sites on their ultimate goal of engaging the majority Shiites. This is of course is inevitable and should be allowed to play out. But our troops have no role in this future showdown and neither do our tax dollars. We need to move beyond the empty soulless nationalism that has been displayed since 9-11. What does "support our troops" even mean? To most it unfortunately means blind acceptance of a failed policy, which in turn calls for more American lives.
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