Well folks its here the REPORT that is meant to solve Iraq, slight problem it does not and the solutions could cause more problems later down the line. In the Executive Summary the Report states that the USA should talk to Iran and Syria, but it seems to think that the interest of these countries is somehow on the fringes of the interest of the United States, Iran’s nuclear issue should be dealt with by the UN Security Council and that Lebanon is part of the Regional problems of the Middle East that the USA should deal with outside Iraq. The Solution to all these problems comes through Iraq, and are not in different boxes. The Report also argues for more troops as an end game for getting troops out, its like saying that we want to score a goal in soccer to lose the game overall, well that how it reads.
The policy of stating that Troops should be out by 2008 given the security environment is stupid, if you’re an insurgent, simple keep quite till 2008 and then let lose the dogs of war, the Americans on the whole would be out and they would not wan to get back in to a major civil war in Iraq in a American Presidential Election year.
The Report sounds like something written by moderate Democrats not quite wanting to cut and run but not wanting to fight either, the worse of both worlds, if you are not going to win you get OUT, a Soldier who fights for his or her country deserves the right to expect his leaders to want to win, in Vietnam in the end they did not want to win, winning mean taking tough and hard decisions, expanding not contraction of War, weakness breeds contempt, after the defeat in Vietnam in 1975.
The idea that if Iraq should fail to meet benchmarks then the USA should leave it to its fate, is almost as bad as Vietnam or worse, the war will not stop if American walks away.
This is brief summary after reading the Executive Summary, VIEWS will get his further thoughts back when he has read the whole thing with a decent cup tea, if the summary is bad, what will the rest be like…
