Jules Crittenden

Fruitful Date Palms of Babylon

As usual, it is Iraq the Model, tangled in the wretched undergrowth, who recognizes the trees around him as a forest.

The last chance…I hear these words a lot these days that it became the common description or question by the media for/about the new security plan—last chance for Maliki, last chance for Bush, last chance for Iraq…as if the new plan was a coin that can be flipped only once carrying victory on the one face and doom on the other.

I think people who use this “last chance” idea are not helping Iraq or America here or they are of the type of people who do not want to deal with the challenge seriously. This term has a tone of defeatism, it’s as if Iraq was a totally lost case while in fact the huge change that’s been happening in the form of replacing a totalitarian regime with a democratic one is a lengthy process that cannot be accomplished through military action alone; success has economic and social elements along with the military one in addition to international and regional cooperation. It is no wisdom to think of closing this file or abandoning it based on the results of one security operation.

Of course you’re going to read the whole thing. Thanks, Mohammad, for a good one. And don’t get irked with Mohammad over the gun registration thing. Remember the forest …

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