November 22, 2006

The Last Mistake in Iraq?

You must read Tony Blankley’s post at Real Clear Politics.

The decisions made on Iraq over the next few months will take the measure of America's maturity and sense of responsibility. Because, whether we like it or not, our decisions -- and our decisions alone -- will determine whether the barely containable murderous pathologies of the Middle East will just be dumped into the face of humanity -- or whether rational efforts will be persisted at to contain and mitigate its civilization-threatening forces.

We have the most profound obligation to attempt to calculate the consequences of the impending American decision to wash our hands of the Iraq unpleasantness. In that regard, the words of President Kennedy come to mind: "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

If we, the most powerful force on the planet, in a fit of disappointment and anger at our bungling policies to date, decide to shrug off our responsibilities to the future -- we will soon receive, and deserve, the furious contempt of a terrified world. In fact, even those Americans who today can't wait to end our involvement in the "hopeless" war in Iraq will -- when the consequences of our irresponsibility becomes manifest -- join the chorus of outrage.

Related: NPR ATC.

A Jawa …uh...conhgtsiracknutpht....um..coughtrollcough… Reader,who shall remain unnamed because he is loathed above all others by the management at TJR, noted that today is the 42nd anniversary of JFK’s murder. It’s appropriate then that JFK’s words are remembered in this post. Hey Democrats! Ya’ll remember JFK? He fought the commies? Wake TF up.