[lit-ideas] Re: some Hitchens to raise ire
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:07:55 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/27/2005 3:48:27 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: some Hitchens to raise ire
>
> Andy: Bush never finished in Afghanistan because he turned to Iraq.
> Afghanistan is therefore unfinished. He dropped his search for
> OBL and turned to WMD. The time to have finished it is when we had
> the momentum, the intiative. Not after we give them time to regroup
> and scatter.
>
> ___
>
> That's another argument for finishing in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
> If we retreat (run away) from Iraq, it will encourage the Islamists,
> insurgents, Iraqi mafia, etc. to fill in the power vacuum and advance.
>
Or it will bleed us dry, the way OBL did with the Soviets said he will to
do with us. The Iraq war is a rock and a hard place. Can't leave, can't
stay. Either way we lose. The best option is the one with the smallest
losses. There are no gains. In the meantime, it's costing a lot of money
and taking up a lot of military resources, and what are getting for it
besides a good thrashing? If it was winnable, we would have won it by now.
> That's one of the basic rules of war. When one's opponents retreat,
> you advance and attack. If we leave, the consequences for Iraq will
> be much worse than if we stay until the Iraqis can adequately defend
> themselves.
>
It didn't apply when we pulled out of Vietnam. The irony is that there
won't be peace until the occupiers pull out. I can't imagine that OBL is
particularly bothered by what happens to the Iraqis, but Iraq is now a
perfect training ground for his organization.
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