There has been a lot of internet chatter in recent weeks among Americans who style themselves as "leftists," primarily because they admire Democratic politicians who believe they could do a better job of slaughtering Afghans, Iraqis, and coming soon, Iranians, than the Republicans, and because "we can't just cut and run."
The crusade is undeniably popular, with politicians and their corporate sponsors as well as with voters, even though the voters have not, at least yet, received a benefit.
While fans may state different reasons for their support, as far as the voting classes are concerned, America does speak with one voice.
Unfortunately, it is a voice that willingly funds, and advocates crimes against humanity, and constitutes a much graver danger to ordinary Americans than any gaggle of scuffed-up old CIA assets ever could.
Staying in Iraq is by definition, pro-war, or more accurately, pro-colonization, since a war tends to imply some sort of parity, which in Iraq, there is not.
In their unstinting efforts to outdo the right at the popular new American game of Good Germanhood, some "leftists" have been reduced to making the argument that while it is morally reprehensible, it is pragmatic.
It is, after all, making quite a bit of money for those who are intended to make money from it, and even people who have not received a benefit support it.
Therefore, any politician who wishes to continue in politics has little choice but to support it, and those who support him have little choice but to go along.
It is indeed the official policy of both monied political parties, and the number who oppose it, always small, shrinks daily.
That old unbridgeable gap again: it is just as impossible for Americans to comprehend the idea that the oil, and the people, and the land, are NOT US property by divine right, as it is for people in the Middle East to entertain the notion that they are.
A few hardline obstructionists, enemies of freedom and terrorists like myself find ourselves unable to resist the temptation to ask the pro-crusade faction questions like: What would Americans think of it if Iran, just as an example, decided that it did not like America's form of government, and appointed itself the boss of the US and sent in Iranian gunmen and torturers and sexual predators to enforce its views?
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1 - Big Time Patriot
"There has been a lot of internet chatter in recent weeks among Americans who style themselves as "leftists," primarily because they admire Democratic politicians who believe they could do a better job of slaughtering Afghans, Iraqis, and coming soon, Iranians, than the Republicans, and because "we can't just cut and run."
It sounds like you are referring to some specific internet meme but I'm not sure if I've heard it.
The whole argument whether to "cut and run" is interesting and complex. For liberals and Democrats it is a big problem. If Democrats regain power, how long do they have to try and "fix" Bush's mistakes? Do they get blamed if they can't "fix" the mistake in Iraq?
One consideration is that perhaps Iraq is "unfixable". I think at times (not fully committed to this, but as an option) that we should just cut out of Iraq right now and just try and provide some humanitarian aid (or war reperations) to whomever takes power after the brutal year or two that would follow. It would be really hard on Iraq, but some mistakes just can't be fixed. George Bush has broken the shell of the egg of Iraq and all his horses and all his men may not be able to put it together again.
I myself have never totally undrstood the argument of why Iraq can't be allowed to divide itself into two or three separate countries (I know the Oil Companies oppose this because it would increase their costs to negotiate with more than one country). It seems that three countries, Kurd, Shiite and Sunni Iraq, would at least reduce the fighting to border fighting instead of civil war fighting.
Tough question but I myself do lean towards "cut and run".
George Bush has screwed the pooch in Iraq and it's not up to the rest of the country to make that dog a virgin again..
2 - SFC SKI
You wrote the above as if Yugoslavia's civil war had never happend.