To Iraq, nothing argues Andrew Bacevich. Instead, our debt is too Iraqi people and we should become more welcoming of refugees at the same time that we get our own troops the hell out.
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What We Owe
01 Jul 2007 11:59 am
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The title of this entry is an allusion to the remark of which magnificent French revolution era figure? Could someone help me; I've been trying to remember this for a while.
We owe the Iraqis a war fought in Iraq until the last Iraqi who objects to it is dead.
Jeffrey Davis sounds like he's channeling Al Qaeda in Iraq. Either that, or he's under the delusion that the war in Iraq will magically end if American troops leave. Michael Yon, who's on the ground in Baqubah, describesgives a sample of what Al Qaeda in Iraq has been up to that suggests otherwise.
whatever you think about the current situation in Iraq, the refugee argument is obviously lame:
If the US has a debt to the Iraqis, it has a debt to all peaceful Iraqis, who would just like to get on with life, but there is no way all of these could or would want to emigrate. A percentage of the well-off, young and educated have already left, the rest are mostly stuck there. While I would agree that the current US immigration policy regarding Iraqis is shameful, it's a blatant cop-out to present a loosening of these restrictions as a solution to the problem. It would help a few, but the vast majority would still be f@cked for life and the US' debt towards them will never go away.
Harry is under the delusion that the war in Iraq will magically end if American troops stay.
Not magically, mq. It will end eventually either way, but if we have some residual force there when it does end, we will be better able to shape the outcome.
"Bill O'Reilly, Beck and Rush would likely explode."
Every sane American not working as a sociology professot or writing for the Nation would likely explode.
To me, Jeffrey Davis sounds like a man who has despaired of the efficacy of politics.
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Heads in the Sand
Andrew is correct of course. But...with the way the wingnuts are not dealing with the hispanic influx, and the way the US treats its existing muslim people, it would be far more humane to pay/pressure other countries to take in more Iraqi refugees.
Bill O'Reilly, Beck and Rush would likely explode.
I won't happen, and probably shouldn't happen, not that the Iraqis don't deserve a safe haven to live their lives.
Posted by JimPortlandOR | July 1, 2007 1:27 PM