In a speech given on the fifth anniversary of the war on / in Iraq, King George II publicly declared a halt to troop withdrawals for the moment. He (again) promoted the effectiveness of the troop surge, and promised this would not be an "endless war," , a war which will end when the government of Iraq can meet these four benchmarks....
They become a capable and viable partner
They become a stable democracy
They promote our common interests
They help us fight our common enemies
To which, I have to ask.....
Where do we put the fifty-first star? We might as well add it to the union right now.50 or 100 years? Try not for generation after generation......Try possibly not ever. The government of Iraq is powerless and flaccid, except in their ability to twist Bush around their little fingers, as they sit idly by and watch us pour billions upon billions of dollars (and human life after human life) trying to stabilize a country completely and utterly at war with each other, mired in a civil war that even a complete fractionalization of the country will not end.
2 comments:
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We have been in Korea for 50... and Japan for 60.
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Quite right, Papa.
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