Senator McCain has yet to give the American people clear answers to three fundamental questions: What, exactly, are the political objectives of keeping large numbers of American soldiers in Iraq for years to come? What plausible outcome would benefit the United States enough to justify the wrenching costs of achieving those objectives? And what, concretely, is the strategy for getting there? Full Story »
Posted by Salam Adil
Unstated hidden agendas are always a recipe for bad journalism. The hidden premises of this article are that Iraqis are genetically incapable of evolving beyond a barbaric existence and that any outcome short of a return to the Garden of Eden is not worth our effort. A surrender now or a surrender later are the only possibilities the author allows. Furthermore, surrender is the only avenue the author allows to avoid “further damage to US global standing, and continued deferral of attention to other pressing challenges”. The logic of this position is suspect.
