Whatever Your Day Holds…
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006…please take some time out to think about those whose days are not so routine at the moment.
Archive for the 'War On Terror' Category
The Wages of A-Klo
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Max Boot on the consequences of “cut and run” or “cut and jog”, or whatever it is the Democrats are proposing:
Bad as the situation is today, it could get a lot worse if we simply pull out. The probable result might be labeled “civil war,” but it would bear scant resemblance to our own Civil War. It wouldn’t be two sides fighting one another; it would be a war of all against all. Iraq would probably degenerate into the kind of anarchy seen in Somalia and Afghanistan in the 1990s. As in those countries, the resulting backlash could produce an Islamist dictatorship that would threaten American interests. We would also be hurt by the perception that we are a “weak horse” (to quote Osama bin Laden) that can be driven out of a country by a few suicide bombers — a perception sure to embolden terrorists.
Not a pleasant scenario. But we need to be honest with ourselves about what is involved in an unseemly dash for the exits. By all means, try to apply a political Band-Aid to Iraq’s gaping wounds. Just don’t be under any illusion that it will hold.
More on this later this week.
Predictions, Grim and Otherwise
Monday, November 6th, 2006It would seem that my skills at prediction have been endorsed by at least one insider.
We shall see, of course.
But just in case, we’ll try my hand at election predictions tomorrow. And my record there is pretty darn good, too.
Stay tuned.
