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"It's Not Important When We Get Out"
According to MCain, casualties are important but when we leave isn't. Why, is one important and not the other?
It seems to me that McCain attaches importance to casualities not only for obvious humanitarian reasons, but politically because low casualities reduce media resources and coverage of Iraq; out of site, out of mind so to speak. He has injected the idea that with low or no casualities, it ok for us to stay indefinitely as long as necessary, maybe even 100 years. Missing from this calculation is the effect that this occupation, agreed upon or not by the current Iraqi government, helps to raise a new generation of anti-US jihadist, as well as an economic and stateside toll of maintaining troops indefinitely. We are effectively paying off Iraqi not to fight against us, and the large national guard deployments have left us vulnerable in the case of a national disaster. This underscores why tying the US economy to Iraq makes sense for Democrats.
Comments (5)
If our soldiers, young men and women with families who have a knot in their stomachs every moment of every day, come home - they cannot be casualties of war.
June 11, 2008 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's look into the mind of John McCain.
When McCain speaks, it's clear to me that he wants a kind of military Xanadu in Iraq... no one killed, injured, or hurt. Soldiers welcomed with flowers, chocolates and perhaps vestal virgins. Peace with honor. You know, just like it (never) was in post-war Japan, demilitarized Korea, Allied-divided Germany. As one can surmise from this, no one lives in the past or in an intellectual vacuum more so than McCain. He doesn't want to leave Iraq until everyone knows we WON, and is convinced we went in to do the RIGHT THING. Listen to the man! He says that his advisement from Gen. Petraeus on withdrawal consists in assurances that when the time is right, i.e. when we declare victory, we can withdraw. No other circumstances come to his mind. And so of course in this corruption of systematic military strategy, talk of timetables for withdrawals is trivial, and certainly not important when compared to establishing his fantastic vision of what we can have in Iraq.
June 12, 2008 9:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know that you're lovely Nina, but you are cute. Otherwise, I find your analysis to be spot-on.
June 12, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, Brant.
(BTW Thats the nickname my granma gave me, to separare me from all the homely Ninas. And, I am lovely on the inside, where it counts.)
June 12, 2008 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I thought Bush already declared victory like in 2005? Shouldn't we have left then?
Whisper it in shame,
Keating 5 McCain/ Bob Dole 2008...
or
SAY IT LOUD, SAY IT PROUD!!!
OBAMA/EDWARDS 2008!!!
June 12, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
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