Middle Class Populist

Archive for December 26th, 2006

The army is now asking for more troops in Iraq. Meanwhile our military is being stretched to the limit. George Bush who commanded not only the executive branch but whose party controlled both Houses of Congress now points the finger at the democrats and says, “where is your plan?” Well excuse me Mr. President there is no one leader of the Democratic Party. Besides you have the apparatus of the government behind you. You have access to the intelligence reports and military commanders. Your fellow travelers in the Republican controlled Congress NEVER exercised their constitutional responsibility of oversight of the intelligence and decision making process that brought us to this mess. Thank God after Jan 1, 2007 the Congress will be in the hands of the Democrats.

After 9-11 perhaps it was in the national interest to kick some ass and make nations fear us again. But then instead of staying we should have left Iraq to some puppet general who would be our lackey.

Instead George Bush has done a “Jimmy Carter”. He tried to support democratic change while not realizing democracy is part of an intricate pattern in a cultural framework. Mr. Bush has violated the “Prime Directive” of Star Trek Sociology! Remember what happened when Carter let the Shah fall? No Mr. President democracy is not where rival militias lead by various clerics sit down and try to come to some national accord. Democracy requires SECULAR HUMANISM and separation of Church and State.

Oh yes Mr. President under Saddam there were no religious militias! Instead these were formed due to our under staffed occupation of Iraq. Again I remind my readers, imagine Post War Germany three years after the fall of the Nazi’s. We exercised complete control. We did not allow the SS or for that matter other independent militias to operate. Instead George Bush and his fellow travelers have embarked on a Social Engineering Experiment that has placed not only our troops in harms way but has reduced the deterrence capability of our national military.

What is worse our society seems to frame arguments in terms of only two choices. That is to say can we win in Iraq? The answer is not yes or no! There are not simply two answers but a third. The answer is yes but is it in our national interest and our we willing to pay the cost? If we say “yes” but stay the course then we will find ourselves in a Vietnam situation. If we say “no because we cannot win” then we loose our military deterrent. If we say yes but make the commitment as we did in World War II we will be throwing money on a vast neo-con social engineering experiment that will cause deaths to rise and the interest rate! We can pull it off but we have OTHER FISH TO FRY. We must not let the Taliban win in Afganistan!

We must leave within a year but do so by proclaiming VICTORY. We can point out to other rogue nations that we can overthrow them. That is the important point not that we have to insert a western democracy in it’s place.

Kim Il Sung does not care who is successor is. He simply does not want a successor!

Thus initially the war in Iraq aided our deterrent capability while staying and engaging in a neo-con social engineering experiment does not. If we had left Iraq, after reforming the Iraqi Army and putting a friendly junta in place, we would then have a CREDITABLE PERCIEVED DETERRENT THREAT to Iran and North Korea! Now these two nations, which pose a far more serious threat to us, laugh in our faces. Great job Mr. Bush – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

The time has come for America’s great Silent Majority – Our Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to stand up and to say NO to the Katrinaization of our military by Bush.