Iraqi Pres blasts Iraq Study group findings

[Aileron]

Yesterday the President of Iraq attacked the results of the Iraqi Study Group yesterday, calling it an insult. The gist of his complaint is that the Iraqi government is sovereign, and not a colony of the US, and thus Iraq has no obligation to follow any mandates and deadlines set by Washington.

 

 

You know, he's right. We've let this heated debate over Iraq boil so much that we have forgotten the reason the situation isn't under our controll because it was never supposed to be. Our mission over there was to remove Saddam Hussein and install a legitimate democracy that is not hostile to the free world and that mission has been accomplished. We stayed to help stabilize the country, but at the end of the day we are there because they want us to be there and whether or not they want to stabilize their country is up to them.

 

Its like the old saying "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Our mission was to lead the horse to the water and we have done that. If the horse refuses to drink, that doesn't cons!@#$%^&*ute a mission failure. If one is childish enough to blame people, then blame does not rest with the man who lead the horse, it lies with the horse itself. It also doesn't mean that leading the horse to the water was a poor decision, the horse may decide in the future to drink the water, and even if not there was no way of knowing the horse's decision in advance. Our other alternative would've been to not lead the horse to water, in which case there would have been no chance for the horse to get water and he wouldn't be any better off.

 

So if you must blame somebody, stop blaming the US President for what is going on in Iraq, which is a country that is not the US which is the one and only one country the US President has sworn an oath to, and start blaming the Iraqi President who has sworn an oath to the people of Iraq.