tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775933294479123098.post4139405635474715073..comments2023-03-29T03:23:32.859-07:00Comments on Leaves: LA Times: Quiet, withering critiqueFrank Kaufmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01159598894960295988noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775933294479123098.post-73200418709420929962007-09-16T20:11:00.000-07:002007-09-16T20:11:00.000-07:00Nobody is happy. But I think it's not the militar...Nobody is happy. But I think it's not the military's fault. Nor the weak strategy. Our foe is more than irate and hungry revolutionaries (call them that) fighting a big menace in their eyes (the U.S.), our enemy is connected to our limited viewpoint. We are seeing only the stupidity of this war not the positives. We see only the deaths. Heck, ten times more people kill themselves by suicide in one year in America than have been killed as American soldiers in Iraq since we went over there. Yet the death is all we are reminded of. Not the new life the hope the generosity the interaction and the relationships we are making over there for good. IF, and I admit its close to an impossible if, but IF we had the stomach to absorb the killing, weighing on the scale of the hundreds of positives happening in Iraq, our perspective would become a friend. We'd persevere with guts. That's what Americans do. But American's warp our policy is to the opposite. No one likes this war, but I would bet even with Clinton or Obama in office its not to be undone so easily.<BR/><BR/>So, for this author to say it can "only be called a quaqmire" its because his head is stuck in the mud of bad news.Eugene Harnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511229518949845792noreply@blogger.com