GET OUT OF IRAQ

A large part of the problem with our attempt to solve Iraq's problems is the incompleteness of our approach - too few men, too few professionals, too few funds, and too many projects, too many loyal Republican flunkies, and too many unrealistic assessments.


As Rabbi Jeremy Rosen put it, our approach is like: "going into a foul smelling room, holding your nose and spraying at arms length ( or getting some poor sanitary worker to do it for you) instead of going in totally and completely and really clearing the place out".


Of course that is a characteristic of much that we do internationally.


But in the case of Iraq, for justifiable reasons many Americans are not behind this adventure, and for unjustifiable reasons the rest of the world got their knickers in a twist over our sheer chutzpah in thinking we could rectify some matters in the Middle-East. In any case, we've made a mess of it, we're not going to commit significantly greater efforts and resources to it, and our European allies will not contribute by word or deed to the rectifying of it.
[We bought it, we broke it, we no longer want it.]


Our nerve, and our arrogance, was in not realizing that the failures in the European approach to Levantine problems could not possibly be due to any European failings.
[Well, we're Americans, so we can't know any better.]


There's also a nasty pattern of world-wide kvetshing and kretshing about whatever we do.


I'm fairly certain that the rest of the world thought the Marshall plan ill-advised.


I know that several commentators criticized our contribution to famine relief in Africa and post-tsunami aid in Asia as not being sufficient - because it did not make everybody happy again, raise the dead, and bring on the Messiah.


Totally cynically, I feel we should get out of Iraq, and let the Syrians, Persians, Turks, and Saudis fight each other directly, rather than continue to provide them with a forum for their proxy war. They hate each other? Good - let them stop paying Baghdadi goon squads to clobber innocents at random, and get themselves directly involved.


Pakistanis, of course, will supply man-power to each fanatical faction - and Pakistan would be the better for being drained of their psychopaths.


As will Europe, when all those coddled Islamic whack-jobs leave the environs of Paris, Antwerp, and Rotterdam.
[The remaining European contribution can then be wailing and the wringing of tiny little hands.]


I would also especially suggest involving the Dutch - they have a strong opinion about everything (which is usually unfavourable at best), they might as well remove that clog and put their money where their mouth is.
[Sanctimony should be added to the list of deadly sins - for which the Dutch can serve as poster boys.]



No matter what the rest of the world does or thinks about Iraq, we should get out and let the place blow up.
There ain't a darn thing wrong with that.
Please feel free to leave disagreeable comments.