Reply #122: When you rape a woman [View All]

[markus]

the first responsibility is to go to jail.

Then we figure out what to do about raising the child.

I think that would be a more apt analogy.

We have the rapist (Bush) and we have the child (Iraq).

I think we all agree what to do with Bush. Figuring out how to care for the problem child we now have on our hands is the tough issue.

Ultimately, I think only partiation (leaving the Shiites to themselves and protecing the Shunni and Kurds (and the Saudis and Kuwaitis for that matter) from them is going to be the solution.

And it's going to involve a very high level of peace keeping involvement from tens of thousands of troups for the forseeable future.

But if we decide to turn this into a Crusade against militant Islam in the person of al-Sadr, we will be creating a nightmare of immense proportions.

We will end up with an profoundly anti-American subject population who will cut loose and start killing us the minute our back is turned, even if that's 20 years from now.

We will have made a horrible situation infinitely worse. Reasonable people like Powell probably know this. The Neo-cons are blind to reality, and they are in charge.