Posted on 03/17/2006 10:11:53 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
THREE years after the begin ning of the war in Iraq, what have we accom plished? The honest fact is that we don't yet know the answer to this question - and because we don't know, the war remains unpopular.
For example, we don't know yet whether the war we're fighting against al Qaeda in Iraq has made the United States safer because we've tied down terrorist assets and distracted terrorist attention from the homeland. This was not the purpose of the war at the outset, but world-changing conflicts take twists and turns no one can foreseen.
What we do know is that 41/2 years have passed since 9/11, and we have not been hit again. To be sure, others have - Spain and Britain and Indonesia most evilly. But we have not. Is the war in Iraq part of the reason? The question will have an answer - not now, but eventually.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
March 17, 2006
JPod: "Iraq's Overlooked Triumph"
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John Podhoretz credits Iraq's "political class" with a little-appreciated victory in resisting calls for civil war over the past two weeks, and instead continuing to work out their inevitable conflicts through the political process. Podhoretz makes a fundamental point that some seem to forget:
[T]he members of Iraq's political class have chosen hope - chosen to fight their battles at the bargaining table rather than in the streets. By doing so, they are, in fact, offering an example of what democratic institutions are intended to do. They are supposed to replace armed conflict with political negotiation conducted by those who might otherwise take up weapons to get their way.
Thank you for posting this article.
On the contrary, I believe this was one of the goals at the outset.
Think about it. It makes sense. Go into Iraq and the terrorists will concentrate their resources there instead of over here.
Exactly...I don't know how the Post can say it wasn't a goal when it was so obvious right from the start.
"On the contrary, I believe this was one of the goals at the outset."
I believe it was Rumsfield who very clearly stated early on that the attack on Saddam was a spoiling attack.
BTTT - for later reading
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