Still, this is worth posting:
Scott and I were talking about Iraq in the context of Lebanon instead of Vietnam the other day. What bothers me is that it took less than 300 US casualties of Marines to get the US out of Lebanon, yet with this set of jokers in Washington, the kind of attack that killed 241 Marines in one day in Lebanon will be seen in the context of Iraq as a reason to throw even more members of the US armed forces into harm's way.
Civil war in Iraq, should it come, is not a good thing for anybody. Not for us, and definitely not for them. Whether it can even be stopped is the question at hand. And I really have no idea. I'd like to hope that a full-out civil war in Iraq is not inevitable, but the cynic in me says that cooler heads generally don't prevail until after a lot of blood has been shed.
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I'm having a hard time following the logic on this. if civil war in Iraq is at all good thing, what is our goal there? Who are we fighting for, what are we fighting for, and how long are we going to be doing it? I don't doubt there are smart conservatives out there if they have the ability to do the mental gymnastics to make this make sense.
Posted by Sara | February 26, 2006 3:21 PM