07 December 2005
Fighting for Freedom
I just listened to a returned soldier who fought in Iraq. He answered the question Why are we in Iraq? by saying, “We’re fightin’ for freedom. The people of Iraq deserve freedom.”
The terrorists in Iraq are not a threat to the freedom of Iraqis. They were inspired into action because of the American occupation of their country. It is the intention of the Bush Administration to confuse its supporters by defining the U.S. objective in Iraq as defeat of the terrorists. It should be our objective, now that we have been dragged into Iraq, to challenge the Iraqis to establish order and a civil society for themselves.
The best way to do that is, in fact, to set an arbitrary schedule for withdrawal. This would not be an “artificial” deadline, as President Bush called it in his speech on December 7, 2005. Arbitrariness will be a good thing – a cold shower for Iraqis who were not able to overthrow a brutal dictator on their own.
I just listened to a returned soldier who fought in Iraq. He answered the question Why are we in Iraq? by saying, “We’re fightin’ for freedom. The people of Iraq deserve freedom.”
The terrorists in Iraq are not a threat to the freedom of Iraqis. They were inspired into action because of the American occupation of their country. It is the intention of the Bush Administration to confuse its supporters by defining the U.S. objective in Iraq as defeat of the terrorists. It should be our objective, now that we have been dragged into Iraq, to challenge the Iraqis to establish order and a civil society for themselves.
The best way to do that is, in fact, to set an arbitrary schedule for withdrawal. This would not be an “artificial” deadline, as President Bush called it in his speech on December 7, 2005. Arbitrariness will be a good thing – a cold shower for Iraqis who were not able to overthrow a brutal dictator on their own.
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