Maybe Friedman will make him a DVD.
Insurgency Out, Anarchy In
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
President Bush has told us that the question of whether to withdraw from Iraq is one that his successor will have to deal with, not him. I don't think so. Mr. Bush is not going to have that luxury of passing Iraq along. You see, the insurgency in Iraq is in its "last throes" just like Dick Cheney said. Unfortunately, it's being replaced by anarchy in many neighborhoods, not democracy. And I don't believe the American people will put up with two and half more years of babysitting anarchy instead of midwifing democracy.
The report that U.S. marines were involved in a massacre of Iraqis in Haditha, which the Pentagon needs to clarify fast, is a tragic reminder that a foreign occupation by U.S. forces can't go on for years. Most U.S. soldiers in Iraq have done heroic work, but occupations that drag on inevitably lead to Hadithas.
Right now we are paying for all the Bush team's missteps in Iraq: allowing looting after the fall of Baghdad, disbanding the Iraqi Army without an alternative security force or enough U.S. troops in place, fostering a culture of torture at Abu Ghraib and then letting the politics in Iraq drift for months without any outcome.
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But the hour is late and the enemy is unique. . .
We can't keep asking Americans to sacrifice their children for people who hate each other more than they love their own children.
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