Headlong into Chaos

(originally published 01/14/07)

Is it really so impossible to learn from history? Or perhaps one needs to know a little history in order to learn from it. Sending "another" 20,000 troops into the quagmire that is Iraq is the worst of all possible tactics. That's not enough to quell the various factions, and too many to have coming home in body bags. Furthermore, a significant portion of that 20K will be troops forced to stay longer than planned, not actually new troops. Imagine the morale. As well as the increase in PSTD and other problems for those who do finally return home.

The flip-flopping by Bush and cohorts on the subject of the war is as baldfaced as the false slanders they have spread about their opponents in the past. "I listen to the advice of my commanders on the ground" - no matter how many I may have to fire in order to get some who agree with me.

It will take more than one term in office for the next President to begin to fix this and all the other messes. I hope we can survive that long.