This blog, The Neurotic Iraqi Wife, popped up in a comment on the Huffington Post. I presume it’s legit. Have a read [by clicking the picture on the left]. It brings home the senslessness of wars about power – Saddam Hussein, George Bush, the elected Iraqis, The Shiite Militias, the Sunni Militias, and the insolubility of the Iraqi situation. It was insoluble under Hussein, no question. But trying to solve an insoluble situation is not something one just undertakes. We’ve made a bad thing worse, and now we say we must stay until it’s settled down. Most people on the planet now know that with us there, that isn’t going to happen. The solution isn’t pretty:- We admit we were wrong to intervene in a situation we didn’t understand.
- We ask the people in that region to straighten out things as best they can.
- We pay for a lot of it.
Then we get rid of the people in our government who decided that we ought to invade Iraq in the first place. We don’t "cut and run," "we cut and help" if that’s even possible any more…
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