Iraqi’s have, on several occasions, hinted to the American Military that they should go home. The Iraqis are learning that you cannot be subtle with the U.S. military. They only understand direct confrontation.
The U.S., of course, is convinced they are ‘helping’ the Iraqi people. Hell, the U.S. says we are going to help you if it kills both of us.
Earlier this month Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the U.S. they can leave any time. Hey George, that was Maliki’s ‘polite’, ‘diplomatic’ way of telling you to go away. But obviously you need to be hit with a stick in order to get your attention. Do you understand the concept of ‘single-minded obsession’?
Now tempers are flying between the U.S. and the Iraqi’s. Once this happens relations will never be the same. Words are said, deep-seated resentments are finally brought out into the open and egos are bruised. This last point may seem trite but I can assure you that when egos get bruised people do some very stupid things.
Everyone else is looking at this latest set of events from the sidelines and can see that the U.S. is no longer welcome in Iraq, that the U.S. is the offending bully.
General Petraeus won’t even acknowledge the problem is as bad as the Iraqi administration is saying it is. It isn’t as though Petraeus is in the next room and cannot hear what is being said, no, he is sitting at the table with the Iraqi’s and they are telling him to go home. Why is he being blind to what the Iraqis are saying? Let me spell it out again, THE IRAQI’S DON’T WANT US THERE!
General Petraeus’ latest ‘solution’ to try to ‘win’ this ‘un-winnable’ situation is arm the Sunni’s. Oh my God!! This is a terrible move. As a military commander this move is at best stupid. As a human being this move is criminal.
Al-Maliki once, in discussion with President Bush, even threatened to counter this move by arming Shiite militias. See what Petraeus’ reckless ‘solution’ is doing. He is only escalating the situation. George, even you can see that this man is off his nut.
The U.S. egocentric response is that this clash is more of a clash of policy than of personalities. Wake up! It is a clash of policy. The U.S military has a policy of ‘winning at all costs’ and they are going to arm private citizens and further exacerbate the problem to attempt it. The Iraqi policy is to run their country the way they want.
The U.S. wants to keep al-Maliki as a puppet at the head of the table and does not want to let go of the strings. Al-Maliki sees right through this. Al-Maliki fought against Saddam Hussein’s method of governing before the U.S. ever entered into the picture. To the point that al-Maliki was banished into exile. He has deep-rooted resentment towards the way Saddam led the Iraqi people. One of those problems was that Saddam armed his Ba’ath Party against all others in Iraq. Now Petraeus wants to do the same thing using the Sunni’s. Saddam used repression to crush rebellions he deemed threatening to the stability of Iraq, Petraeus wants to do the same thing by arming Sunni’s. No wonder al-Maliki wants the U.S. to go home.
We have lost far too many of our brothers in this illegal (yes, I said illegal, George Bush used lies to get us involved in this mess), unnecessary and un-winnable war. Let’s put an end to it and come home. If, as Bush so self-servingly says, we will only have to fight terrorism on our shores then so be it. We already are anyway. I don’t think it will get any worse than it currently is just because we will not be caught in the middle of an Iraqi civil war. We are not peace-keeping in Iraq. Those religious groups, Sunni’s and Shiite’s, will continue to hate and distrust each other long after we are gone. Why should we continue to sacrifice our men and women for something we cannot change? Come on George, tell me why?
No comments:
Post a Comment