Study, Study, Study
Dear editor:
The Associated Press has reported that at least 715 Iraqis have been killed in the past eight days. That has already taken November’s deaths, with ten days to go in the month, to a total of 1,320, which is higher than the 1,216 who died in all of October. The killings are sometimes as brutal as they were under Saddam Hussein’s rule.
To hopefully counter this increasing carnage, which is slowly but surely sinking into a brutal civil war, our government is once again conducting studies to find new ways to change the course of our involvement in Iraq. Not one, not two, but three separate study groups are working on this problem; the congressionally chartered bipartisan Iraq Study Group, the White House’s internal study group, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s military study. Each is operating independently and will issue their own findings. After more than three long years, the death of almost 2,900 American troops, and over 20,000 wounded, three separate groups are looking for a solution to America’s blunder of pre-emptively invading and occupying Iraq.
Doesn’t all this “studying,” after more than three years, make one wonder whether our government knows what in the world it is doing?
On top of all this, along comes Henry Kissinger, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. on Sunday, stating that “If you mean by ‘military victory’ an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don’t believe that is possible.”
So what are we doing in Iraq? Does anyone know? Evidently the White House truly didn’t know three years ago and still doesn’t now, or else why all these studies? Will someone please tell the American public and the rest of the world what we are trying to do there and what the real chances are of accomplishing that goal?
The Associated Press has reported that at least 715 Iraqis have been killed in the past eight days. That has already taken November’s deaths, with ten days to go in the month, to a total of 1,320, which is higher than the 1,216 who died in all of October. The killings are sometimes as brutal as they were under Saddam Hussein’s rule.
To hopefully counter this increasing carnage, which is slowly but surely sinking into a brutal civil war, our government is once again conducting studies to find new ways to change the course of our involvement in Iraq. Not one, not two, but three separate study groups are working on this problem; the congressionally chartered bipartisan Iraq Study Group, the White House’s internal study group, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s military study. Each is operating independently and will issue their own findings. After more than three long years, the death of almost 2,900 American troops, and over 20,000 wounded, three separate groups are looking for a solution to America’s blunder of pre-emptively invading and occupying Iraq.
Doesn’t all this “studying,” after more than three years, make one wonder whether our government knows what in the world it is doing?
On top of all this, along comes Henry Kissinger, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. on Sunday, stating that “If you mean by ‘military victory’ an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don’t believe that is possible.”
So what are we doing in Iraq? Does anyone know? Evidently the White House truly didn’t know three years ago and still doesn’t now, or else why all these studies? Will someone please tell the American public and the rest of the world what we are trying to do there and what the real chances are of accomplishing that goal?
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 4:29 AM
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