Posted on 06/12/2007 5:29:05 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
With no evidence that the surge is succeeding, it is time to try for a cease-fire in Iraq. The U.N. can help. June 12, 2007
THE UNITED STATES might have liked to wait until September for Army Gen. David H. Petraeus' report on the results of the troop surge in Iraq, but that wishful timetable has been overtaken by events. President Bush must begin planning a strategic and orderly disengagement that addresses the increasingly unstable geopolitical terrain.
Three developments underscore the urgency of change. First, as Bush's nominee for war czar, Douglas E. Lute, recently told Congress, the surge has made "very little progress," and the violence will continue unless there is major political reform. But even the administration concedes that such reform is unlikely soon. Not to attempt a course correction is therefore likely to condemn more U.S. troops to die for what their own government concedes may well be a lost cause. That is profoundly wrong.
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sorry y’all, I forgot the BARF ALERT
“a strategic and orderly disengagement that addresses the increasingly unstable geopolitical terrain.”
What increasingly unstable geopolitical terrain? It will become real unstable if we leave, and then the Times’ opinion will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. But that doesn’t matter to these “peace” people, who only want to trash a Republican President’s policy.
Can someone splain just how in the hell you can have peace talks when even they do not know who da heck der leaders are?
(hic) sorry I thought I (hic) had included we kill several (hic) a week
LA Times:
“We have to give up before the surge works.”
Didn’t some Military egghead recently release a paper that says it’s all over for us in Iraq?
Harry Reid writes LA Times editorials?
The full number of troops won't be in Iraq for another week, so how can Mr. Czar even know?
That was enough for me.
Sounds like the author needs diapers.
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