US Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama On Iraq And Peace
IN Foreign Affairs magazine, via the Guardian:
To renew American leadership in the world, we must first bring the Iraq war to a responsible end and refocus our attention on the broader Middle East. Iraq was a diversion from the fight against the terrorists who struck us on 9/11, and incompetent prosecution of the war by America’s civilian leaders compounded the strategic blunder of choosing to wage it in the first place. We have now lost over 3,300 American lives, and thousands more suffer wounds both seen and unseen.
A diversion? Aren’t Al-Qaeda in Iraq?
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June 6th, 2007 at 9:01 am
The diversion Obama was referring to was the fact that we were not going after AL Qaeda, we were going after a dictator.
June 5th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Yes Al Qaeda are in Iraq, but do you think us blowing the country to pieces has helped halt the spread of terrorism? The West is more unpopular than ever in the middle east and we are increasingly afraid of terrorist attacks at home. Dialogue can work, just look at Sinn Fein and the IRA. Once the civilian support for a terrorist organisation dries up, so does their raison d’etre. The only thing war in Iraq has accomplished is making Iran and Hamas more hardline and creating a whole new generation of West-hating muslim fanatics.