Bush the Liberal - The nobility and folly of democratizing Iraq. By William Saletan
Been reading Saletan for a while now, and his views are pretty close to mine....he supported the war when Iraq was an "imminent threat", but now no WMD and no 911 connection, plus bad planning for the "peace"...
If you read the papers you know that Iraq has been and continues to be a catastrophie on many levels, and the occupation will continue indefinitely...we are trapped. If we stay to create a "stable" Iraq, it will take at least 10 years, maybe 40. If we leave even in the next 2-3 years, it's very likely that Iraq will fall into a civil war, destabalizing the already unstable region. We may have created a bigger terrorist monster in Iraq by deleting the evil dictator. So, we will be forced to stay and the casualties will mount, year after year, while our security here at home is none the better for it. How did we get here? George W. and his gang led us here, and he's proud of it.