Withdrawal is not an option - Kissinger

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=4251021

Withdrawal is not an option

Henry A. Kissinger

Tribune Media Services
Thursday, January 18, 2007
President George W. Bush's bold decision to order a "surge" of some 20,000 American troops for Iraq has brought the debate over the war to a defining stage. There will not be opportunity for another reassessment.

The Baker-Hamilton commission has powerfully described the impasse on the ground. It is the result of cumulative choices — some of them enumerated by the president — in which worthy objectives and fundamental American values clashed with regional and cultural realities.

The important goal of modernizing U.S. armed forces led to inadequate troop levels for the occupation of Iraq.

The reliance on early elections as the key to political evolution, in a country lacking a sense of national identity, caused the newly enfranchised to vote almost exclusively for sectarian parties, deepening historic divisions into chasms.

The understandable — but, in retrospect, premature — strategy of replacing American with indigenous forces deflected U.S. forces from a military mission; nor could it deal with the most flagrant shortcoming of Iraqi forces, which is to define what the Iraqi forces are supposed to fight for and under what banner.

These circumstances have merged into an almost perfect storm of mutually reinforcing crises: Within Iraq, the sectarian militias are engaged in civil war or so close to it as to make little practical difference.

[burythehatchet]

1. What a brilliant analysis Hank

thanks for all the great contributions you have made to so many people all over the world. Where would the world be without you.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. besides. I haff not yet reeched orgazm.

It iz too early to pull out.

[seemslikeadream]

3. I will only pull out when the camel is fully able to screw itself

[Emit]

4. Posted previously: We're Not In Iraq For Iraqis-We're There "For Energy Supplies Of Industrial Demo

Kissinger: We're Not In Iraq For Iraqis-We're There "For Energy Supplies Of Industrial Democracies"

In reference to this part of same article:
"American forces are indispensable. They are in Iraq not as a favor to its government or as a reward for its conduct. They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend."



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[maine_raptor]

5. Henry, Henry, Henry...........

When are you going to say something different? You pushed that shit 35-40 years ago. It's getting old, and so are you, Henry.

[spanone]

6. Why does a war criminal have a media forum? I tuned out Kissinger 30 years ago.

[wtmusic]

9. 3 words: Tribune Media Services nt

[spanone]

12. Bullshit news service. Look at the opening sentence 'bush*s' bold decision' bullshit.

[wtmusic]

14. I believe that's a Henry quote

but I wouldn't put something like that past them. Ever since they bought the LA Times we get little tastes of propaganda like that all the time.

[skooooo]

7. Henry, FUCK OFF!

Go read to your great grandchildren or something.

[maine_raptor]

10. Oh Great, just what this world needs.....more screwed up kids. n/t

[originalpckelly]

8. HOW DARE YOU POST THIS?

I never want to see the words "Henry Kissinger" and "withdrawal" ever again in my life! :puke:

[sallyseven]

11. Kissinger can go to heck.

[scarletwoman]

13. Why isn't that old war criminal dead yet? How much blood does he have to drink to keep going?

Makes ya wonder whether he's so evil that even hell doesn't want him...

sw

[originalpckelly]

15. ...

:spray:

Now that's funny! :rofl:

[generaldemocrat]

16. Who cares what this gas bag says?

Thanks for the Latin American death squads Henry.

[porkrind]

17. Cough. *war criminal*, Cough.

He's like the archetype for Dr. Strangelove. What a psychopath.

[Warren Stupidity]

18. War Criminals: no statute of limitations.

You better hope you croak before we get to you, you miserable mass murderer. Justice is coming, the train is rolling and there is no stopping it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. Kissinger - Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"

[Donald Ian Rankin]

20. Clearly, Kissinger's record of foreign policy successes makes him someone worth listening to...

NT...