Editor, Daily News:
Whether we should "stand down as they (Iraqis) stand up" or whether we should "cut and run" is being discussed all over the media. It is, as The Bard would say, "Much ado about nothing."
Our position in Iraq is not winnable — period. We are not going to equip the current government with sophisticated weapons — F-16s, etc., to tilt the balance. We know they would soon be turned against us. Restoration of order is not going to happen.
We now support the religious Shia. They have been waiting since A.D. 680 for this chance. They are not going to let bygones be bygones. Once they are more securely established, they are going to clean the clocks of the Sunni and maybe the Kurds, too, and impose a Shiite theocracy.
Hot air from the Bush administration about democracy is just that — hot air. Better to go now than spend more trillions of dollars and more American lives on a losing proposition.
President Bush says let the next president sort it out. That is the real cut and run.
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