When not to start a war
Christian Science Monitor
by Andy Zelleke
09/11/07
Gen. David Petraeus’s report of some ’surge’-driven success on the ground does not change the reality that invading Iraq has proved disastrous, and that nothing plausibly salvageable there is worth thousands more GI lives, or hundreds of billions more dollars. So our soldiers should come home. But President Bush is right to remind the nation that humanitarian horrors followed closely on the heels of America’s withdrawal from Vietnam, and that a horrific scenario could unfold in Iraq if US forces leave abruptly. Unconscionable as it may have been to stand by during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, consider how much greater the moral culpability when the slaughter would flow from a sequence of events that America’s own war of choice set in motion...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0911/p09s01-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Zelleke
by Andy Zelleke
09/11/07
Gen. David Petraeus’s report of some ’surge’-driven success on the ground does not change the reality that invading Iraq has proved disastrous, and that nothing plausibly salvageable there is worth thousands more GI lives, or hundreds of billions more dollars. So our soldiers should come home. But President Bush is right to remind the nation that humanitarian horrors followed closely on the heels of America’s withdrawal from Vietnam, and that a horrific scenario could unfold in Iraq if US forces leave abruptly. Unconscionable as it may have been to stand by during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, consider how much greater the moral culpability when the slaughter would flow from a sequence of events that America’s own war of choice set in motion...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0911/p09s01-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Zelleke
rudkla - 12. Sep, 15:23
