Iraq

I read an opinion piece in the USA Today newspaper by Ralph Peters. He said, “I supported this war, but the deteriorating situation is starting to convince me that we can’t win. Those of us who hoped that the Iraqis could achieve democracy were wrong – and their failure has implications for the entire region.”

Latter in the piece he said, “My disillusionment with our Iraq endeavor began last summer, when I was invited to a high-level discussion with administration officials, I went into the meeting with one firm goal, to convince my hosts that they’d better have Plan B in case Iraq continued to disintegrate. I left the session convince that the administration still didn’t have Plan A, only a blur of meandering policies and blind hopes. After more than three years, it was still ‘An Evening at the Improv.’”

You can (and I think should) read the full article In Thursday, November 2, 2006's paper.

I feel the USA is “Staying the Course” on a road that is dead end. I think we need to shit-or-get-off-the-pot. By that I mean we should send in enough troops to control the country, probably two or three times the number we have now, or get out as fast as we can. However, to send in more troops would require the draft and the administration is afraid to do that because they are not really conducting a war on terror, but are in fact using those words to create fear in order to stay in power.