Reply #99: No, it is absolutely not that simple. [View All]

[Clarkie1]

"The solution to the mess, the way we get out of the Iraqi killing business, is to get out. Now rather than later. It is that simple."

If your goal is to "get out of the Iraqi killing business," then that will do the trick...we'll be out!

That's a pretty self-centered goal for America. Being self-centered in an interdependent world what got our country into this mess in the first place.

A more honorable goal (while there is still even a glimmer of hope) is to do whatever we can to prevent even greater mass bloodshed, and leaving tomorrow will not accomplish that. So if you just want to leave regardless of the consequences, sure, it's simple.

But if all lives are important to you...Iraqi and American, and you care about America's integrity (the little we have left after what the neo-cons have done) and relationships with the rest of the world, then it is not so simple.

It really comes down to a question of values. If the time comes (and Clark has said it may come soon) when because of the current administration's ineptitude there is no chance our staying can prevent even greater blood being shed, then it will be time for us to leave. It will be the only honorable and sensible choice we have left.

And it will be clear even to Republicans which party was inept and had no plan.