Monday, January 29, 2007

Middle East Woes...

"Thanks to abysmal policy errors (many pre-dating the current administration), we've caught ourselves between two irreconcilable sides - Sunni and Shia Muslims - whose enmity dates back 13 centuries. And we're now taking fire from every direction.

Dreaming that all Iraqis could get along, we alienated potential friends and empowered deadly enemies. Short of Mongol-quality savagery, the traditional way to win in the Middle East has been to select an ally and stick with him - while avoiding the folly of trying to play honest broker."

Yes, the real world has been agonizing over what to do with old Mo's kids for the past 1300 years, but the real problem today lies in the irrefutable fact that, unlike our crusading forebears, our present day friends and neighbors refuse to believe that we are at war with a bloodthirsty cult that wants nothing less than our death or enslavement.

In many ways, they've got us right where they want us. Fat, prosperous and clueless. If you've any doubt of that, just listen to what the new democrat Congress has been spewing. We've the strength to end it all anytime we please, but our swords have beaten into timeshares.

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