Democracy isn't built overnight.
Especially in a region of the world like Iraq that has never known freedom, it takes time to build a stable government, and bring together all the hostile factions.
Germany had the Nazi "werewolf" movement. There were several years of assassinations, sabotage, etc. And we still have troops in Germany.
And Germany didn't have an insurgency externally generated, by a group like Al Qaida, or neighboring states like Iran and Syria.
We also have troops in Bosnia, Kosovo and elsewhere.
Criticizing elements of the Iraq occupation I can understand, pressuring for more effectiveness, reducing waste, and revising toward a workable plan for success, THAT I can understand.
But those who talk about abandoning Iraq, and just leaving its citizens to be slaughtered, and leaving Iraq to become a hub of terrorism, that I can't understand.
2007-07-31
06:38:40
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