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Monday, August 21, 2006
Iraq: Sectarian violence continues
The cycle of violence continues unabated:
Snipers on rooftops and in a cemetery killed at least 20 people yesterday in a series of attacks on a Shia procession that had attracted hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Baghdad.
We need real leadership on Iraq and we're not getting it. The Republican plan is "more of the same". The competing Democratic plans are "something different". At this stage, something different sounds a hell of a lot better than more of the same. What we need, more than anything, is a clear articulation of what we should do differently and why we expect it to succeed. That's awfully hard to hear amidst the hue and cry that wavering from the president's vision amounts to feeding our first born child to terrorists.
It seems to me that if we had started to withdraw troops a year ago, we could have helped quell the anti-American insurgency. At this point, removing American troops will likely unleash a full-scale civil war which will result in in a theocratic, authoritarian Shiite government, a subjugated Sunni minority, and a separate Kurdish state. And I don't know how that result would make us any safer at home.
