Tag: Iraq

E.J. Dionne Jr. explains why the debate on Iraq, as framed by the president, is not only wrong, but counterproductive. Like him, I’m not sure I agree with any of the possible solutions on the table, but the solutions proposed by groups ranging from the Center for American Progress to the new Center for a New American Security at least offer a move away from the “Should I Stay or Should I Go” mantra that has dominated discussion.

The questions no longer is should we go, but when and how. That’s the discussion we need to be having.

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I would think the frequency of these stories would eat away at the consciences of those in power. But that would require that the folks who hold power actually had consciences.

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From Fire Dog Lake:

I thought the “Bush surge” in Iraq was supposed to reduce violence.

I thought so, too. But the violence just seems to continue and, as Fire Dog Lake — and numerous news reports — points out, it is on the rise.

Exactly how long are our nation’s soldiers expected to play this deluded game of whack-a-mole, risking life and limb for George Bush’s ego? Because even allowing for an increase in violence due to the weather heating up and the usual summer uprisings and such, the whole “surge of troops to quell the violence” concept is working bass ackwards.

And it is the troops on the ground, not the strutting folks in Washington, who are paying the ultimate price for this. As well as the Iraqi people, most of whom are trapped in increasingly violent sectarian pockets, or running to other nations as refugees from George Bush’s war. What a mess.

Indeed.

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The Democrats should have done the same thing with the war-funding bill that they did with this stem cell bill. Instead, they caved to an unpopular president and are allowing an unpopular war to continue without much of a fight.

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