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
This is an important piece because it gets behind the "news", clears away the fog, and asks the hard questions that all Americans of whatever political stripe should be asking. Why are we there? What are our objectives? What is winning and how will we know when we get there. And, is it all worth it. It is the American media's shame that these questions are not constantly being asked and answers demanded. It posits realistic future scenarios based on Iraq's history and recent experience. It is not a partisan polemic but a rational analysis.
