It's only the end of the beginning of Iraqi agony (America must now answer to UN & EU)

Irish Independent ^ | Rupert Cornwell

[MEG33]

Piffle!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...Many of us who opposed the war did so because we believed the risks to regional stability outweighed the potential gains. Nothing so far has changed that judgment...

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[Dog Gone]

He opposed the war, and he'll oppose the peace.

[theDentist]

Here's our answer: Up Yours!

[Conspiracy Guy]

I've started saving my Labrador Retriever's lawn deposits. Does anyone have Kofi's home address?

[scubadave]

Rupert Cornhole wrote: Can the UN regain a semblance of authority

Hey Rup, they never had any authority to begin with!! This is the same bunch of marxists that slept through Rwanda, the Congo civil war, the Iraqi repression and the Lebanon tragedies. Can you say i-r-r-e-l-e-v-a-n-t?

[i are a cowboy]

I've got an answer for them F.O.& D.

[dfwgator]

OK, here's the US answer to the EU and UN, "Eat My Shorts!"

[Leisler]

Typical EU Irish loser. ”Technological superiority (aided, it should be said, by the ineptitude and bewilderment of the Iraqis)” We could of smoked them with their weapons, and they with ours. They had no, zero leadership, because unmentioned by the august euweenie, the nation was run by murderous, lying thieves. Women, children and the unarmed they could, barely, kill. Real soldiers, with real leadership went through their fat, blouse stretching guts like bayonets.

This display was won at Ft Benning and tens of other bases and was won ten and twenty years ago. The ignorant writer thinks, like most dictators and leftists that you can “buy” results. A little bit, but mostly you earn them, something socialists and baser thieves never understand.

[Cyber Liberty]

I say, Let them contemplate the possible quantity of angels dancing upon the head of a pin.

We have work to do, and it gives them a hobby to keep them out of our way.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The author all but contradicts his point. Every time it looked like the U.S. was stumbling, adjustments were made, the situations corrected, and the doubters sent "back to their lairs." This doesn't guarantee that the same will happen in the future. However, it does indicate a possible pattern.

[MEG33]

The Marxists love world govt ideas to steal from the rich(US)They at most ignore atrocities unless they can try to hang something on us.

[trebb]

I always thought it was those that did the misbehaving that had to show that they had been rehabilitated and had changed their ways...

[dead]

To see what a genius Rupert Cornwell is at military and political prognostication, one need only look to his column from only 10 days ago: “An unwinnable war Is Iraq the new Vietnam? The comparisons look closer every day.”:

But the fond belief in Washington - and the one on which this war was largely sold - that the advancing GIs would be greeted as liberators, as they were in occupied France in 1944, has already been shown to be an illusion.

Never, surely, in a modern war has not victory itself, but the manner of victory, been so important. Yet the pictures are not of garlands of flowers thrown by a grateful local citizenry upon the invaders' tanks. They are of shattered buildings and weeping civilians.

The Dick Cheneys, the Richard Perles and others who believed (on the basis of what information, it is not clear) that Saddam's Iraq would collapse like a card castle once serious military pressure was applied

[BSunday]

You forgot the Flaming Idiot Alert

[Billthedrill]

Not the most accurate of headlines, IMHO - the author's point is not that the U.S. must answer to the EU and the UN, but that the latter are not in a position to demand it anymore and may never recover such a position.

It always was a bit of a pretense, a point of view which distilled to "you give us money and troops and we'll dictate how to employ them, and lecture you about your own moral inferiority in the bargain." That sort of con game requires the willing participation of its victims, and that willingness is no longer present. When that happens the con game folds.

[dead]

IN his last paragraph, he implies that the only way to make the world a better place is for the US to willingly make itself subservient to the likes of the UN and the EU.

You're right that he doesn't expect it to happen. He's just putting it on the record so that every unfortunate future event can be blamed squarely on the backs of the American Administration that didn't take his never-wrong advice.

[Yankee]

"This enemy wasn't the one we wargamed against," noted Lieutenant General William Wallace

Tell a lie often enough..................

Wallace's actual quote, as reported in a New York Times correction was "The enemy is a bit different than the one we wargamed against."

This moron author should sit back, enjoy a pint of Guinness and STFU.