Commentary for September 13, 2007

Never ending war.

I wrote about the Iraq invasion before it happened, and I guessed correctly that it was based on lies.  In the end, it has turned out to be a much worse fiasco than I could of imagined.

The war has dragged on for four and a half years now, with no end in sight.  The main problem, in my opinion, is that we had a plan to win the war, but not the peace.
Our president keeps telling us success is possible, what what is our goal?

Personally, I don’t know what our goal is.  I have tried to read ‘The Road Ahead” plan back in January, and it really didn’t have a clear destination.  Now, the plan is the same plan +/-20 %.  Surge, no surge, it’s all the same.

I think the president really needs to be honest with America, for once, and tell the American people how long he really thinks we will be over there.  My best guess is 20 to 50 years, similar to our occupation of Korea or Japan.  Just tell us we will have 80,000 troops there for the next few decades to we can better prepare our military for the long haul.

I know he lied to get us into this war, a little honesty may get us out of it, eventually.