Political analysis
No End In Sight
- By Chronically Pissed
- December 01, 2007
I watched No End In Sight last night. If you’re not familiar, it’s a recent documentary chronicling the unimaginable incompetence and short-sightedness that led to the current stalemate in Iraq. While I didn’t learn a whole lot of new information, I was floored by the parade of career diplomats, soldiers and policymakers, most of whom were involved in the initial occupation, who spoke with absolute incredulity about the way things went down over there. Even Richard Armitage comes off as a pragmatic genius who might have, alongside Colin Powell, prevented the current catastrophe if only anyone had been listening. The movie helped me reach a clearer conclusion about Iraq than I have previously been able to distill from my jumbled thoughts.
The argument about winning or losing in Iraq is useless gibberish. Iraq is no longer ours to lose. We broke something that only Iraqis can put back together. They’ve shown neither the inclination nor the ability to do so. It might be fairly argued that we won the battle (while disenfranchising and alienating Iraqis of all stripes, from each other and against us). Unfortunately, it was a battle that led to a war in which we have no place or potency.
There is No End In Sight because there is literally nothing we can do but continue to squat there, keeping a lid on a barely latent civil war, hoping against hope that the Iraqi people will wake up one day and decide that they no longer hate each other over ancient religious differences. The cost of waiting for that to happen is now being estimated in the trillions of dollars, not to mention lives lost. In the meantime, our most serious challenge is to stem the tide of anti-American sentiment that is igniting the Islamic world because of our meddling in Iraq. On 9/12, we had a manageable security challenge and the world community on our side. The Bush administration has turned that into a generational calamity that is endangering people all over the world.
We cannot “win” the war in Iraq in the sense that George Bush would have you believe we can. There is no victory to be had for America in George Bush’s war. Our new mission – the war we can win – is to salvage our reputation and show the world that we’re better than the fucking dickheads who have been running this country [into the ground] for the last seven years.
I have a suggestion…
We must hold responsible the ridiculously small group of men (and Condoleeza) who engineered and executed this nightmare. We must make a bold statement to the world that our leaders are accountable for their actions. At the very least, setting aside even the criminal manipulation of intelligence that got us into Iraq in the first place, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and L. Paul Bremer should be tried for homicidal negligence for their total failure to plan for the postwar occupation, for ignoring the best advice of their commanders regarding troop levels and for ignoring the best advice of respected senior diplomats and policymakers regarding de-Baathification and the disbanding of the Iraqi military. The only thing these cocksure megalomaniacs managed to do right was convince us that we should let them wage their war. Apparently that got them so excited that they just started tripping over their overblown egos and slipping in puddles of their own premature ejaculate.
The argument over going to Iraq in the first place is over. We’re there. Not many people fought against that while it was happening. Let’s focus now on how these guys fucked it up beyond all recognition. Let’s send these assholes to Guantanamo for some waterboarding, then ship them back to a state where hanging is still an available remedy, and let’s broadcast their swinging corpses all over the world. On the very next day, let’s forget they ever fucking existed and move forward as the great nation we once were.
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you go boy! I agree with you 100% And now with the new NIE out, it proves we don’t need to be picking fights with Iran!
353 days ago by tinsletown
wow bro, you call yourself a liberal? I love it how you seem to despise the violence in iraq but jump at the opportunity to kill our president. you may not like everything, but he’s your president. He’s our president. way extreme dude. way fucking extreme. another reason i’d be ashamed to call myself a liberal.
350 days ago by superBad
re: the previous comment by superBad
Whoa, dude. Way fucking extreme comment, bro. Totally awesome smackdown, bro.
But seriously, I love it when people who would “be ashamed” to call themselves liberals defend liberalism by saying things like “Wow, bro, you call yourself a liberal?” Assuming you are a conservative and assuming you’re one of the 30% who will never jump ship on your dear President, let me ask you a question: Can you imagine a scenario in which you might call for the impeachment or imprisonment (or even execution, as my piece did with a certain amount of absurd, bellicose posturing which you seem not to have detected) of a Democratic president? See, I remember the days when your kind were ready to throw Clinton out of office for lying about getting his pole waxed. I sincerely doubt that you were saying things like “He’s your president.” (Perhaps you were too busy skateboarding to notice, bro.) In event, the crimes of this administration have clearly exceeded bathroom blowjobs by a factor of about 1.5 trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.
Also, please note that I never claimed to be a pacifist. I think we can all agree that the violence in Iraq sucks. My argument applies to the needless bloodshed that has resulted from a criminally mishandled expedition into Arabia by a bunch of arrogant, ignorant, balls-out assholes.
349 days ago by Chronically Pissed