Shit Or Get Off The Pot
I've been waiting for someone, either MSM or alternative, to put forward questions I've been chewing on lately. What would happen if the ruling elite actually followed the "bring them home now" mantra of Murtha and other show-boating anti-war stars?
Let's suppose the US pulls completely out of Iraq. I mean completely; no rapid response forces stationed all over the ME or in nations bordering Iraq, but all the troops home, or at least where they were before March 2003. No lengthy "planned withdrawal" or other stalling for time euphemisms. No "staged drawdown" with years of pointless congressional sermons debating a troop withdrawal resolution. Let's say we adopt a shit or get off the pot provision and bring them home now.
Who steps in to replace the current US coalition? Perhaps not a question for those who believe the world will allow Iraq to settle it's internal problems. But dear I cannot imagine that.
Does anyone believe that Iraq will be permitted to sort out their situation on their own? Does everyone believe that Russia, China, or a consortium won't step in to give economic, military, and "humanitarian assistance" a.k.a. installing their own preferred puppet show?
What sort of contracts would Russia, China or a consortium offer the stay-at-home US, in terms of oil and influence in the region, and at what dollar amount? What's the going price of pacts another puppetmeister might expect the US to pay after we pick up our marbles and go home?
If Joe Blow thinks his daily struggle to survive is fragile now, what would it be if energy dependence is not only on the ME but on his government's new best friends, Russia-China ME/EU Consortium, Inc.? Personally, I have no problem with others stepping in to fill US boots in Iraq. Having began preparation in January 2001, when BushCo strong-armed itself into power, I'm ready to pay the price of peace, but is Joe B.?
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What hit me when I read this was: Now there’s a show-stopper!
No matter how wrongly initiated and badly executed the war on Iraq was, abandoning that country now is surely not in our nation’s best interest. Unfortunately, public discourse on the truth of where we stand is not in the war architects’ best interest. So the US continues on as usual; elected officials and established beneficiaries are rewarded in money, property and prestige obscenely proportional to their subversive contributions to this nation, and the people are rewarded with images of mouth-watering plastic turkeys and other such pomp and circumstance inversely proportional to their honest contributions to the nation.
As for paying the price of peace, regrettably and intentionally there are few who understand that everything has a price tag on it; and few who recall that nature abhors a vacuum.
Your description of society's beneficiaries is well said my friend. Thanks.
The United Nations would have to fill the vacuum until the Iraqis can fill it themselves.
UN possibly, but as that body is ill-equipped and underfunded, it too would need to send "peacekeeping" forces from nations willing and able to fund the mission. If the US leaves Iraq, who knows which global powers might inherit Iraq. Maybe Mr. Bolton knows.
The US side-stepped giving the UN a role in Iraq, any consortium or other nation could do likewise.
The UN sat while 110,000,000 million died last century during it's 1945-2000 history. A sad record for keepers of the peace.
hi kate
great threads babe, don't agree with you on all of them, but that's what makes life interesting eh? :o)
unfortunately the WMD lie that was the basis for invasion was only being perpetrated by Saddam in order to keep Iran in check, it was in effect a bluff
The coalition of the killing knew this way before they waltzed in there and blew the shit out of everything, after all, it was us who sold him the WMD in the first place!
If we were to pull out of Iraq right now, Iran or a larger force would take control no question
I don't personally have a problem with that, it's a muslim affair, they can sort it out between themselves. The united states has no right to act as a policeman to the world, especially given it's track record
what a mess eh babe?
Yep hon, it's a mess.
its better to be the winning team on the field than sitting on the sidlines keeping ones fingers crossed and eyes closedeven on drugs, RUSH IS RIGHT
chuck, vero fl.
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