Reply #12: here's where the left loses credibility and a place at the table [View All]

[Hamlette]

there are two problems now: 1. evaluating how and admitting that we got it so wrong so we don't do it again, and more importantly, 2. what do we do now.

If things are as bad as the left says they are in Iraq (yes, I believe they are that bad) what happens if we walk away? We have created a breeding ground for terrorists. Terrorists who want to destroy us and who have all of the wealth (oil, because it has become the life blood of our economy.)

Think. Isn't there something we can do to fix this? Wouldn't dividing the country up ala Galbraith/Murtha be better?

If you don't appreciate how dangerous fundamentalism is, you have not been paying attention. It is not dangerous only in terms of terrorists, but in terms of Bush himself. It is all part of the same thing. It is a type of thinking that allows one to believe god is on his side, he can do no wrong, people who do not think like he does are sub-human (See post of interview by Carter) etc.

Freidman was wrong about the war but not for the same cynical reasons Bush was wrong about the war. Freidman honestly thought the invasion would/could help people of the ME. Who the hell knows why Bush went to war but it wasn't that reason.

There are peace loving people in the ME. Do we leave them to be slaughtered by their fundamentalists? Wouldn't you want someone to help us when our crazy fundamentalists take over and start killing in the name of god?