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Once again I punished myself by viewing this past weekends political commentary shows on TV, wherein the pundits all speculated endlessly on the coming civil war in Iraq resulting from last weeks bombing of the Shi’a mosque in Baghdad. Doom and gloom oozed from their somber demeanors. It would be a catastrophe, plunging Iraq into chaos and providing the final proof of the folly of Bush’s policy.
Only once on FOX I believe, (as I can not imagine it being done on any other network), the commentator pointed out that everybody was assuming the inevitability of a civil war and asked the pundits present to think and comment on the other possibility, that the new Iraqi government might be able to handle and diffuse the situation. The respondents ‘thinking’ went no further than to condescendingly point out how very unlikely that was.
Today, while by no means a surety, it starts to look like that may, indeed, be the outcome. I find it remarkable that these pundits could not even entertain that prospect long enough to appreciate what a tremendous accomplishment this would be for the new Iraqi government and what an enormous validation it would be for Bush’s Iraqi policy. Is that not what we all, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Liberals and Conservatives alike have all been saying we wanted to see happens? Has not everybody been waiting for signs that the new Iraqi government would start to be capable of handling its own internal affairs? Is thanot what we all want?
I suppose if it does, indeed, turn out that way then, rather than praise and rejoicing, all we will hear about is how we must now bring home the troops, completely confusing the ability to handle a political situation with that of handling the terrorists warring activities. That way defeat may yet be seized from the jaws of victory by those who would thereby reveal their true desires.
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