Yes, there's a topic no one is talking about. The military guys who say it would be a disaster if we pull out of Iraq, what they propose is that we send more troops. Just like John McCain, they say the same thing - more and more and more troops. How is this not the Vietnamization of the Iraq war - slowly, slowly upping the US presence, but never enough to solve the problem?
Some day the American people get to wake up from their stupor and face a stark fact. They have three choices:
1. Stay in Iraq at the current troops levels, watch the country slide into a civil war, and have zero ability to stop it. Things keep getting worse, US troops keep dying, we never win.
2. Send lots more US troops to Iraq - where do we find them? a draft - and maybe we can stabilize the country over the next ten to forty years, maybe, while US troops keep dying.
3. Withdraw troops from Iraq, watch the country slide into a civil war, and have zero ability to stop it. Things keep getting worse, US troops no longer die, we never win.
This gentleman at the Brookings Institution illustrates the logical fallacy the military "experts" find themselves in on Iraq:
"If we start pulling out troops and the violence gets worse and the control of the militias increases and people become confirmed in their suspicion that the United States is not going to be there to prevent civil war, they are to going to start making decisions today to prepare for the eventuality of civil war tomorrow," he said. "That is how civil wars start."That is how the civil war starts? It's already started. The militias will gain more control over the country? They are gaining control now. The patient is terminal, and you keep telling us what's going to happen if the patient gets sick. We get it. The patient isn't just sick already, the patient is dying. Stop telling us how bad it could get IF the patient gets sick, it IS going to get bad and there is nothing we or you can do about it.
At some point, someone, please ask one of these brainiacs if they think maintaining the current US presence in Iraq will ever solve the crisis. The answer is no.
