I am perplexed by the people who think that we should give the President's plan "a chance to succeed."
President Bush seems to be fatally caught up in the sort of thinking that goes, "if something doesn't work, do it harder and make it work." It is time to stop enabling this lame mode of thinking.
President Bush and his supporters continually ignore the consequences of the chaos they have brought to Iraq.
It must be clear by now that the Iraqis are in or on the verge of a civil war. How can they settle the differences they have among themselves with Uncle Sam butting in?
The US troop presence in Iraq has clearly been ineffective in protecting the Iraqis from violence and has thwarted whatever ability they have to devise a peaceful future for themselves.
We brought the Iraqis into a world of trouble when we invaded and destroyed their government and civil authority. It is beyond our power to restore those institutions.
The Occupation is worse for the Iraqis than the Saddam regime was. Under the old regime, brutal as it was, there was some predicability.
The Occupation has brought completely unpredictable and deadly violence into the most populous areas.
The least we can do is to leave and let the Iraqis get on with the healing process.
There are other consequences for our staying in Iraq.
The Administration course in Iraq has diverted resources from the Global War on Terror without compensating gains.
Al Qaada and other terrorist groups are still operating and striking against our friends.
The efforts to prevent such attacks have been harmed by the continuation of the war in Iraq.
Instead of working together and presenting a world wide front against Islamic terror, governments are forced to submit to American policy or left to their resources.
Lebanon and other countries face serious new challenges thanks to Bush's policies of democratic tranformation.
Public opinion throughout the Arab world and in Moslem communities everywhere has been decisively turned against us by our brutalization of the Iraqis.
