Now that President Bush has announced that he will not stay the course in Iraq, the US role is being overtaken by events. The Iraqis are taking matters into their own hands, alright, but not in the way the Bush Administration had envisioned. The US troops on the ground are stretched to their limit. They cannot be everywhere at one time, and they cannot contain the violence. They are just sitting ducks. There is no coherent central government or military force that represents the Iraqi "people." Rather there are several Iraqi peoples all at war with each other. Neither the US or any military force in Iraq can contain the violence and provide security for the Iraqi people. Chaos and anarchy reign. The generals in the war room are just moving meaningless military units around on the map with all the efficacy of Hitler in his bunker moving non-existent German divisions, still trying to come up with a winning strategy. Finally, Hitler accepted the reality of losing but blamed it all on the German peoples' lack of drive to assert their Aryan superiority over the inferior undermensch. Will the neocons, similarly, blame the debacle in Iraq on the American peoples' unwillingness to "stay the course"?
A military solution was never possible in Iraq. Military minds are control freaks. We're going to do this and get this result. Then we'll do that and get that result. This is rational, left brain thinking. The only problem is that, when you have a dispersed bunch of antagonists, none of whom seem to do anything that make any sense, this type of rational, control freak thinking goes nowhere. All the US is doing now in Iraq is getting itself killed a few soldiers at a time. We're accomplishing nothing there; the situation would probably improve if we just "cut and run," but the egos of the military planners cannot live with this result: that we have accomplished nothing but to destabilize the middle East and strengthen the hand of Iran. So even though Bush has turned tail and will not stay the course after he has been "talking tough" with the American people for years telling them he's going to "stay the course" and "get the job done" even though "there's a lot of work to do" and "the situation is tough" but it's "worth it in the end," this is all only so much bullshit!
This is a fitting result for an administration that invaded a sovereign nation pre-emptively based on lies and deception and then conducted the war incompetently. Starting an unprovoked war, basing a military invasion on falsehoods and then operating from incompetence has accomplished nothing but to weaken the US, waste half a trillion dollars on military adventurism, besmirch our reputation with the rest of the world and hasten the day when our banker, China, will become the world's dominant power. By means of arrogance and hubris, the Bush Administration has singlehandedly done its utmost to reduce the US to the status of a third world nation. From superpower to third world status in one administration! Worse than winning, losing or cutting and running, the US has become an irrelevancy. Events are taking their course and the US with the mightiest military force in the world is powerless to do anything about it. When will the control freaks and neocon superpower egoists learn that they can't control everything that goes on in the world, and that we might better just mind our own business and try to get along with the rest of the world instead of trying to contol it? When are the American people going to wake up and realize that the Republicans have nothing to offer but fearmongering and turn the fearmongerers out of power?
