Washington Post Takes Swipes a Dems’ Iraq Plan
The Washington Post becomes the latest mainstream media outlet to criticize the Democrats’ Iraq War plans. They find it unserious and designed for 2008’s elections instead of dealing with the Middle East situation as it is today:
In short, the Democratic proposal to be taken up this week is an attempt to impose detailed management on a war without regard for the war itself. Will Iraq collapse into unrestrained civil conflict with “massive civilian casualties,” as the U.S. intelligence community predicts in the event of a rapid withdrawal? Will al-Qaeda establish a powerful new base for launching attacks on the United States and its allies? Will there be a regional war that sucks in Iraqi neighbors such as Saudi Arabia or Turkey? The House legislation is indifferent: Whether or not any of those events happened, U.S. forces would be gone.
The core of the Democrats’ problem is no Iraq War strategy. Cut-and-run doesn’t cut it when chaos could break out. Ed Morrissey writes,
Do the Democrats have a plan if this catastrophe comes to pass? Viet Nam may have had strategic significance only in a Cold War world, but the Middle East has tremendous economic and political significance for the US. If Iraq collapses and starts a regional war between Sunnis and Shi’ites, oil shipments will likely stop and millions of people in Southwest Asia could get killed. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have already stated that they will likely enter Iraq to protect the Sunnis if we withdraw, which would bring Iran in to protect the Shi’ites, with Syria joining as Iran’s military ally.
“The Pelosi Plan for Iraq“
