Larry: Thanks for the rejoinder. I know you don't intentionally
counsel defeat, but that is the necessary result of the strategy
you propound. The fact is now, was in 2003, and always will be
that by delaying action against other terrorist regimes while we
wait for the Iraqis to sort themselves out is a strategy that leads
inevitably to our defeat. While Maliki and the rest fiddle,
Ahmadinejad develops nukes, Syria keeps the Sunni insurgency alive
in Iraq and Saudi Arabia plays both ends against each other. I'm
not against helping nations achieve democracy, but I'm inalterably
opposed to elevating democracy to the status of weapon or strategy.
As Iran, Syria, and the rest are proving day after day, they are
using our delay to their great advantage. Democracy was impossible
in Germany until Hitler was dead and his regime ground into dust.
Democracy in the arab world must wait until victory has been
achieved. Iran? Syria? As WSC would have said, "Action This
Day."
topics:
Iraq, Iran
