It's clear that the Iraq War is ending the way the VietNam War ended...
...with massacres and village bombings as the final desperate measures to achieve results that no one can fully express or remember anymore...
And that have been, more or less, reduced to political abstractions...like "We are winning. " Or, "We can't afford to lose."
As a rule, by the time someone says: "We cant afford to lose"...they have already lost.
Iraq can and will govern itself after a US pullout...just has Iraq has governed itself for the last 4000 years...! All wIthout US intervention....or invasion.
The Iraqis are experienced in matters of government much more than Dubya and the Neocons give them credit for.
When Iraqi women want their "rights" they will get their rights.
When the Iraqi people want a change of regime they will organize a change of leadership...as they did 4000 years ago...and as they will now...all without the "help" of invaders from thousands of miles across the sea.
IT'S OVER IN IRAQ...THE REGION IS MUCH LESS STABLE. AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THE US MILITARY CAN DO THERE THAT WILL HELP THE SITUATION...EXCEPT TO PULL OUT; AND LET THE IRAQIS DECIDE THEIR FATE ON THEIR OWN.
And alas, I would bet that very few Iraqis support the Israeli annexation of the West Bank...now or before...
So the real "secret" purpose of the war...to wit: Installing a Pro-American, Pro-Israle government is less likely now that it was before the war...or any time in the recent future.
