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Monday, June 27, 2005
Exit Strategies
Courtesy of Jay Tea at Wizbang, we learn that the anti-American Left and its Congressional delegates are once again talking up the notion of an "exit strategy." What they really mean, of course, is a timetable for withdrawal.
Some people's need to see America humbled clearly exceeds their good sense. This proposition won't fly even with decent opponents of the Iraqi campaign. It will merely make the proposers appear foolish and small.
Political considerations sometimes impose time limits on a military undertaking, but there's no conceivable reason for the administration to announce a self-imposed time limit, upon the expiration of which we'd pull out of Iraq regardless of conditions there, to the world and all the Islamic terrorists in it. At any rate, the whole notion cross-cuts the "flypaper" approach to cleansing the Middle East of its violent fraction, which is working rather well. Iraq is acting as a magnet for those who hate freedom and want to see "the black flag of Islam" fly over every capital in the world.
Our presence in Iraq also has positive secondary consequences. It's a demonstration that we will act to cleanse a faraway nation of its tyrants should the need become urgent enough -- and that we'll stay to finish the job once it's begun. We wouldn't want to undercut that statement, either. We did so once, in Somalia. A fellow by the name of Osama bin Laden reportedly considered it quite instructive.
Are there costs? Of course. But compare those costs to the ones imposed upon us when nineteen Islamist madmen hijacked four airliners and turned them into guided missiles. You may recall the incident.
Comments
Actually, what they want is not merely a timetable for withdrawal. It is a timetable within which they can force our defeat and humiliation.
A point at which they can show the jubilations of victorious socialist/Islamists and the proxy troops from the outside power (probably Iran) overruning the unfinished Iraqi Army.
Of course the media will then ignore the resultant slaughter (like they have in Viet Nam and Cambodia) so they can spend their time publically congradulate themselves for their defeat of the evil Bush and of bringing the US back to where it should be: ashamed and on its knees giving away our wealth and future to the world our “Imperialism” has so harmed.
They were thrilled with our country when we proved we couldn’t even rescue the hostages in Tehran. A weak and incompetant military that has to ask permission of the UN for the troops to wipe after using the latrine is to be desired above all things. No President should ever have the ability to use the military (except against evil, white, religious US citizens). Diplomacy and (our!!!) compromise are most important.
If someone (but not Americans, especially not Christians - they get hunted down by the FBI/ATF/DEA with borrowed tanks like those nuts in Waco) feels angry enough to use violence against us we need to apologize and offer reparations and a hug. We have to give it all away. We must be weak and subserviant. Only then can we be properly brought in to the one-world socialist government.
Posted by wayne on 06/27/2005 at 03:59 PMAny exit strategy worth considering begins with step 1: winning the war.
I have a fair number of concerns about the fact that we’re fighting a war without having defined a condition which would constitute victory, and therefore precluding any such exit strategy from even being devised.
But there is no doubt in my mind that any _other_ kind of exit strategy would be far, far worse.
Posted by Matt on 06/28/2005 at 01:30 AMI’ll opt in favor of Bill Whittle’s exit strategy: “This war will be over when we say it’s over and not one second before”.
Anyone care to sign up for an employer where projects stop on a specific date whether they’re completed or not? Not a great success/survival strategy, IMHO
Posted by on 06/28/2005 at 07:04 AM
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