Posted by
Reeson on Monday, October 23, 2006 7:20:59 PM
I saw an AP report this evening where Senator Lindsey Graham said Iraq was on the verge of chaos. No kidding, Senator. War, by definition, is chaos.
One of the biggest problems in Iraq is that there is no clear cut battlefield with defined combatants. Kurds are fighting Sunnis, Shiites are fighting coalition forces and Sunnis, Sunnis are fighting everyone, jihadists are fighting everyone, etc., etc., etc., etc.
Senator Graham also said that everyone should be held accountable, specifically Rumsfeld and the generals on the ground. This makes no sense at all. Generals fight wars with the resources they are given. Just because things may not be going as well as we had hoped at this point doesn't mean we should just fire everybody and start over.
General Abizaid and General Casey are two of the finest commanders this nation has ever produced. They have a much greater appreciation for the complex realities on the ground in Iraq than does Senator Graham.
It must be nice to be able to sit in your office in Washington and criticize the guys overseas trying to win a war for their nation. We all understand, Senator Graham, that times are tough in Iraq.
But the problem is not Rumsfeld or the generals. The problem is a massive struggle for power by multiple groups who all know that someday, maybe in the near future and maybe not, the Americans will leave Iraq.