Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Recognising that Iran and Syria play a role in supporting the fledgling country is important, but the crucial point at stake here is that the whole Middle East should be leveraged to help ultimately what is one of its own. Just as the butterfly effect succinctly describes, the intervention of the US in one country - just one - in the volatile region, results in tremors in the surrounding countries and eventually the world. Admittedly, there is already international support and aid for Iraq, but the involvement of the Mid-East, whether they like it or not, remains insufficient. Outside players they may be, yet they nonetheless have great influence on the local and regional perception of the States and of the international community.
Yet this report is merely just that, a report, at the moment. Until Bush chooses to include its recommendations in his war-mongering strategies, there can be no end to the tragi-comedy called Iraq. Ominously, there was a parallel commission report during the Vietnam War, half-heartedly endorsed by then-President Lyndon Johnson, who later rejected the whole commission, leaving the States with a sad history in Vietnam. Times in history have shown that such panels have generated the greatest impact when they provide a president with the mechanics and bi-partisan blessing to do what he probably wanted to do anyway. To us, a world hapless in its sighs for the conflicted situation, it remains a hope to see what the hawks in their ivory towers would draft in their next step for an occupation-gone-wrong.
Yet this report is merely just that, a report, at the moment. Until Bush chooses to include its recommendations in his war-mongering strategies, there can be no end to the tragi-comedy called Iraq. Ominously, there was a parallel commission report during the Vietnam War, half-heartedly endorsed by then-President Lyndon Johnson, who later rejected the whole commission, leaving the States with a sad history in Vietnam. Times in history have shown that such panels have generated the greatest impact when they provide a president with the mechanics and bi-partisan blessing to do what he probably wanted to do anyway. To us, a world hapless in its sighs for the conflicted situation, it remains a hope to see what the hawks in their ivory towers would draft in their next step for an occupation-gone-wrong.
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