we talk about global events from a western, political, and oftentimes partisan, perspective.
we discuss the war in iraq usually from a symbolic perspective, i.e ‘the republicans are idiots’, ‘it’s the front-line on the war on terror’, ‘cut and run’, etc.
but yesterday iraq moved even closer to an all out civil war between shi’ites and sunni’s.
the civilian death toll has been growing steadily from month to month, and the american
troops in iraq aren’t able to do anything about it.
i really do hope that the democrats and republicans will be able to put aside their partisan differences and come up with a solution to the seemingly intractable disaster that is iraq.
the democrats need to stop laying on the blame, as we all know that there were no weapons of mass destruction and that the bush administration hurled the country into a war for which they weren’t prepared.
and the republicans need to stop calling the war in iraq a ‘success’ or ‘the front line in the war on terror’ or ‘the path to democracy in the middle east’, as it’s none of those things.
right now the situation in iraq is just a complete disaster, and using it as a partisan football is becomingly increasingly irresponsible on everyone’s part.
personally i think that it’s going to end up being a loose, federal state with 3 partitioned
areas: kurdish, shi’ite, and sunni.
iraq as a conventionallly integrated nation-state just won’t work, as the sunni’s and the shi’ites hate each other too much to ever really live and work together.
i hope, for the sake of the iraqi’s and for the sake of the troops serving in iraq and for the sake of stability in the middle east, that the politicians in d.c will be able to muster the courage and resolve to come up with a workable solution to the situation in iraq.
moby
