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Firedawg
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 Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| BuffaloJack wrote: | | Quote: | Kissinger: Iraq Military Win Impossible
LONDON -- Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.
Kissinger presented a bleak vision of Iraq, saying the U.S. government must enter into dialogue with Iraq's regional neighbors _ including Iran _ if progress is to be made in the region.
"If you mean by 'military victory' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible," he told the British Broadcasting Corp.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111900287_pf.html |
I might be inclined to agree with Kissinger's assessment, but with a few changes.
If one looks at Viet Nam you will see that the communists took over in 1975 and in the 31 years since, the communist way of life has gradually been supplanted with the capitalist lifestyle that was engrained in the South. Now the Vietnamese government is communist in name but capitalist throughout most of its civilian enterprises.
I think that we need to stay in Iraq long enough for much of the populace to enjoy freedom and enterprise and get used to it. Then when we pull out, the seeds of an elected republic culture will be sufficient to resist the mullahs and their radicalism. Iraq might even wind up as a state similar to Turkey. |
Great post. Now Kerry is deciding to go to Syria to do to our military exactly what he did to all of us. I can't believe this guy still gets elected. |
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dusty
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Looking for help from Syria and Iran is like asking the wolves to help you guard the sheep herd.
Big time stupid idea.
Dusty
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