On 12/7/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nice cartoon, but Daniel D's commentary was much better.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/daniel_davies/2006/12/the_decent_interval_has_begun.html
Daniel writes:
<blockquote>The point is, as George Packer (via Jim Henley, who makes
a number of important points on this subject) points out in this
essay, that there are a lot of Iraqis to whom we owe a debt. The local
staff of embassies, intelligence informers, members of
coalition-friendly political parties. They are at very great risk
indeed of being massacred after we leave.
Any plan to remove troops from Iraq, then, needs to be accompanied by
a plan to evacuate a lot of Iraqis who will become refugees. The CIA's
estimate for South Vietnam was that 200,000 Vietnamese were owed a
ticket out (including families); the number for Iraq is unlikely to be
less than half as many. ("Simple, Chilling Lessons," 7 December 2006,
<http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/daniel_davies/2006/12/the_decent_interval_has_begun.html>)</blockquote>
First, there will be hundreds of thousands of deaths every year during
the "decent interval."
Hundreds of thousands of refugees will be Washington's parting gift to
Iran and Syria.
Hundreds of thousands of former US employees who get massacred after
the US withdrawal will give a good pretext for Washington to sanction
Iraq again, just as it did Viet Nam after the Vietnam War.
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