Because there’s no one there worth staying for:
Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.
Speaking at a news briefing at the Pentagon, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbaro, deputy director for regional operations at the Joint Staff, said American soldiers had stopped the car at the checkpoint but had allowed it to pass after seeing the two children in the back seat.
People who blow up their own children simply cannot be redeemed. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that we can do for a land populated by such people. And such people are not worth one drop of our soldiers’ blood or one dollar of our tax bill.
All we can do is leave, and enable the non-monster elements of Iraqi society to leave with us (“Yankee go home — and take me with you!”). Much of the non-barbarian Iraqi middle class has already left anyway.
Would Iran invade? Perhaps. Or maybe Syria. Or Saudi Arabia. Or Turkey. Or all of the above.
So what? Let the Iraqi ogres blow them up instead of us — or their own children.
There is simply no way anymore to blame the United States for people blowing up their own children. And there is no way to blame us for now walking away from this Islamic cesspool that, at this point at least, is simply no longer our fault.
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Link Dave // Mar 21, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I don't think Turkey would invade, if only because Iraq serves as a kind of buffer between it and Iran and Saudi Arabia.
As for Islam being a cesspool, here's the gist of a conversation I had with a number of Turkish businessmen when I was in Istanbul:
Me: What are your thoughts about Turkey acceding to the E.U.?*
Them: Are you crazy? Turkey's not ready.
Me: Why?
Them: Islam.
One would hope everyone would have the same view but alas they do not. Which is a perfect opportunity for me to repeat the mantra: The only thing I ask of the religious is that they consider the depths to which religion has sunk man.
*This shouldn't be interpreted as me thinking the E.U. is a good idea.
Link casey // Mar 22, 2007 at 11:13 am
How about the children getting blown up? Are they worth staying for? I agree that the time to begin a witdrawal of troops came quite a while ago, but we cannot abandon the innocent of a country that we helped to destroy (though it was enevitably headed for destruction anyway). The moment we put our big, fat world-policing feet in Iraq we became part of their civil war. We need to get outta Dodge, that much is certain, but we must do it in a way that doesn't further disrupt Iraq.
Link JC // Mar 23, 2007 at 9:05 am
I agree with the notion of walking away, I strongly disagree with the notion that this is no longer our fault.
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