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Iraq

Posted : September 28, 2005 at 4:38 pm [America/Los_Angeles]

So, folks, we are faltering in Iraq today in part because of the Bush team’s incompetence, but also because of the moral vacuum in the Sunni Arab world, where the worst are engaged in murderous ethnic cleansing - and trying to stifle any prospect of democracy here - and the rest are too afraid, too weak, too lost or too anti-Shiite to do anything about it.

Maybe the cynical Europeans were right. Maybe this neighborhood is just beyond transformation. That will become clear in the next few months as we see just what kind of minority the Sunnis in Iraq intend to be. If they come around, a decent outcome in Iraq is still possible, and we should stay to help build it. If they won’t, then we are wasting our time. We should arm the Shiites and Kurds and leave the Sunnis of Iraq to reap the wind. We must not throw more good American lives after good American lives for people who hate others more than they love their own children.


- Thomas Friedman, “The Endgame in Iraq”

Could not have said it any better. Btw, here’s what folks who visit a popular liberal-biased blog had to say about this article of his in NYTimes today. Take some time to read the comments on Eschaton’s blog post. It sorta reminds me what Tom had said during a recent visit to UC Berkeley campus, and I paraphrase, “In this whole debate on Iraq War, it seems you can only have two positions - You can either be “for” the war and in turn be “for” everything that the Bush Administration stands for and has done prior, during and after the war or you can be “against” this war in which case you’re against everything that the Bush Administration utters.” Ugh…

- Anand

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