Sunday, August 20, 2006

Meanwhile back in Iraq

Glenn Greenwald has a good post called Meanwhile, Iraq unravels even faster. He ends with:
There are no good options for Iraq. Simply withdrawing in the face of the horrendous mess we made is both reckless and dangerous, but staying is achieving nothing good. But the first and most important step is to recognize who it is who led us into this disaster and, through deceit and desperate irrationality, kept us there due to a refusal to acknowledge reality. And then we should stop listening to them immediately and completely.

So, we broke it and we have to fix it, but us staying there makes things worse, not an easy nut to crack. We need some way to convince others that we understood we made a mistake. I think impeaching the administration that made the grievous mistake is a reasonable solution. It would be a good demonstration of democracy instigating regime change.

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