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0709 - Insolubles

Readers, Readers, has the thought come to you these troubled days that several of the problems we face are insoluble? Take the bloody mess in Iraq. Yes, smart people, including the OO Staff and Barack Obama, said it was a big mistake to invade. Now, the fine old Republican party is facing what looks like near obliteration in 2008, which is what they deserve, some say righteously. But then, what is the correct move now? We have no convenient time machine to go back and not invade. Yet, Iraq is already this swamp of sectarian hatreds, and if the U.S. troops leave, won't the Iraqis massacre each other? Already, there are two million escaped from Iraq, and another two million displaced, and some number in the several hundred thousand killed – and more blown up every day – so if the U.S. leaves won't the blood really flow? Probably, and the Dem candidates are frightened of the political blow-back of this, so most don't want to depart suddenly. But what benefit to depart slowly? We seem to have lost all the good chances to leave, or divide Iraq into warring semi-states. What to do? We have heard no good ideas, and little from the military except warnings that getting all the beat-up equipment and their pinball machines out will take another two years.

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