Why the Iraq Study Group ain't gonna save us

December 01, 2006 by lynnell

I'm not a libertarian or Ayn Rand fan, (although I have empathy for the kind of hybrid form of libertarian-Democrat that Kos talks about here.

But this blog posting by Jacob Sullum, the senior editor at Reason magazine, a Libertarian monthly, is too good to pass up. I've posted excerpts below, but you can read the whole thing, plus the comments here.

Writes Sullum:

"Here's an Iraq update for those of us (including me) who stopped paying close attention because the whole thing was too damned depressing:

1. Most Americans, including some prominent supporters of the war, now agree it was a mistake to invade.

2. We can't just leave, because (even more) chaos would ensue.

3. We have to leave, because otherwise the Iraqis will never take responsibility for their own security and make the difficult political compromises necessary for stability.

In light of these facts, the wise elder statesmen in the Iraq Study Group have come up with the perfect solution: pretend to leave.

The New York Times reports that the panel "will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal." The pullback might not amount to a withdrawal; the troops might stay on military bases in Iraq or somewhere nearby. But it still seems at odds with President Bush's insistence that "I'm not going to pull the troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete."

And this unfirm nonwithdrawal is aimed at scaring Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki into taking a stand, or compromising, or whatever it is he's supposed to do to restore some semblance of the peace and order Iraq enjoyed under the murderous dictator with the bushy mustache whom the U.S. government deposed without completely thinking through the consequences. The members of the commission are patting themselves on the back for coming up with this subtle equivocation:

"I think everyone felt good about where we ended up," one person involved in the commission's debates said after the group ended its meeting. "It is neither 'cut and run' nor 'stay the course.' "
"Those who favor immediate withdrawal will not like it," he said, but it also "deviates significantly from the president's strategy." ...As one senior American military officer involved in Iraq strategy said, "The question is whether it doesn't look like a timeline to Bush, and does to Maliki."

Lynnell weighing in: Oh, for crying out loud. This is what our government has been reduced to. I don't know who this unnamed source is, but I think it's another example of a classic co-dependent reaction to disaster. The Iraq Study group is looking for a way out without pissing off our Dry Drunk Prez or challenging any of his deluded beliefs or admitting he failed. Recovery programs sometimes call it stinking thinking. And darlings, if you think it makes for bad family decisions, just look at what it does for foreign and military policy.

And don't even get me started on the Potemkin village nature of the current Iraqi government----a puppet government that delivers no services to its people, nor provides them with any protection and seems to exist mostly or solely for faade it offers the Bush administration.

No matter what happens in Iraq, I assure you that the current government is not long for this world.

You know, I like to be an optimist. But I tell you, reading all this stuff makes me think, God help the Iraqi people and our soldiers. Because as long as a bunch of drunks (dry or active) and co-dependents are in charge of our foreign and military policy, we are totally, utterly screwed.

(Hat-tip to Roy at Alicublog for tipping me off to Sullum's article.)

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