I said before that one of my hopes from the election was that some of the few GOP senators who haven’t entirely drunk the administration kool-aid might start to put pressure on the White House for a change of course in Iraq. Here’s Chuck Hagel in the Washington Post arguing for just that. What he’ll do in his capacity as US Senator to actually bring about a changed state of affairs remains to be seen.
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal
One response to “Hagel on exiting Iraq”
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“It is part of the ongoing global struggle against instability, brutality, intolerance, extremism and terrorism.”
Oh, please! Actually it’s about the purely inter-Iraqi struggle for dominance between Shi’ite and Sunni Arabs. Nothing more, nothing less.
The thing that drives me batty about such “high-minded” commentary is that people like Hagel really think that it is somehow demeaning for American policy makers to take cognizance of “irrational” struggles between “tribal” antagonists.
A Thinking Reed 
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