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Posted on Thu, Dec. 21, 2006 p 9A http://www.macon.com/mld/telegraph/news/opinion/16293323.htm Only way out is out While we are waiting for the president to tell us how he is going to win the war next year, I have a few year-end remarks about the war. And the first is that we have lost this war. It is useless to talk about more or fewer troops in Baghdad, more body armor for the troops, or a new strategy for winning. The fact is that we have lost this war. The second is that we deserved to lose it. We should have never fought it. There were no WMD. No nuclear threat, no Hitler in the making. We fought it for all the wrong reasons, then tried to justify it by saying we were creating a model democracy in the Middle East. We have succeeded in dividing Iraq into deadly divided forces committed to their own destruction, and ours. So we not only lost it, we deserved to lose it. Third, we claim to be safer because we engaged the enemy over there. We are less safe because we brought the enemy into Iraq, and now the enemy is everywhere. If we think we are safer, try getting on an airplane. We were safer with Saddam in power; now we have a hangman's rope about his neck, and the albatross about our own. We are less secure because we are more hated. Finally, we can't get off by blaming George Bush for the dead and the debt. We created George Bush. He did what the American people wanted him to do. America wanted to dominate the world. We tried and failed. Now Bush is the scapegoat, and we are looking for a way out with the appearance of success. The only way out is out. If we get out alive we can believe in Christmas and a New Year. Henry A. Buchanan Murray, Ky. |